Marc Chagall Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.”
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“Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.”
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“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”
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“If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.”
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“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”
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“My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.”
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“When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.”
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“I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the little Jew of Vitebsk.”
-- Marc ChagallSource : Susan P. Compton, Marc Chagall (1990). “Marc Chagall: my life, my dream : Berlin and Paris, 1922-1940”, Prestel Pub
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“Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love”
-- Marc ChagallSource : Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall (2008). “Marc Chagall: 1887-1985”, Taschen America Llc
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“What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements.”
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“You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.”
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“Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the words of the prophets with closer attention, they would find the keys to life.”
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“In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.”
-- Marc ChagallSource : Marc Chagall, Abram Markovich Ėfros, Benjamin Harshav, Barbara Harshav (2003). “Marc Chagall on Art and Culture: Including the First Book on Chagall's Art by A. Efros and Ya. Tugendhold (Moscow, 1918)”, p.173, Stanford University Press
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“All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.”
-- Marc ChagallSource : Marc Chagall, Curt Valentin Gallery (New York), Curt Valentin Gallery (1952). “Marc Chagall, sculpture, ceramics, etchings for the fables of La Fontaine”
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“Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.”
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“The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.”
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“What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.”
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“The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.”
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“Time is a river without banks.”
-- Marc ChagallSource : Benjamin Harshav, Marc Chagall, Barbara Harshav (2004). “Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative”, p.1004, Stanford University Press
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“You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies.”
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“I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.”
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“The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.”
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“One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.”
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“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.”
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“Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.”
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“For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.”
-- Marc ChagallSource : Marc Chagall, Abram Markovich Ėfros, Benjamin Harshav, Barbara Harshav (2003). “Marc Chagall on Art and Culture: Including the First Book on Chagall's Art by A. Efros and Ya. Tugendhold (Moscow, 1918)”, p.145, Stanford University Press
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“I am working in Paris . I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working.”
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“If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.”
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