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Everything in art must spring...

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

Art seems to me to be above a...

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

My name is Marc, my emotional...

My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

In spite of everything, there...

In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in the name of that spirit which lives on in our teaching and in our vision of humanity and art, the spirit which can lead us Jews down the true and just path. But along the way, peoples will spill our blood, and that of others.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

I am working in Paris . I can...

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.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

I've always painted pictures ...

I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

The stars were my best friend...

The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

If I weren't a Jew then I wou...

If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

What I mean by 'abstract' is ...

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.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

But my knowledge of Marxism w...

But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard. I said to Lunatcharsky (the political communist commissar for Education, 1918, fh) 'Whatever you do, don't ask me why I painted in blue or green, and why you can see a calf inside the cow's belly, etc. On the other hand you're welcome: if Marx is so wise, let him come back to life and explain it himself'. I showed him my canvases.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

The most authentic Russian Im...

The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

You cannot explain me with "i...

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

The dignity of the artist lie...

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.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

I adore the theater and I am ...

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

When I am finishing a picture...

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.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

In our life there is a single...

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

If I create from the heart, n...

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

One must always be careful no...

One must always be careful not to let one's work be covered with moss.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

Color is vibration like music...

Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

Color is all. When color is r...

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

Marc Chagall 78 quotes

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