Marc Chagall Quotes

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

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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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 Chagall

  Art, Men, Our World

  Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall (2008). “Marc Chagall: 1887-1985”, Taschen America Llc

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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.

  Marc Chagall

  Healing, Color, Vibrations

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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.

  Marc Chagall

  Moving, Hope And Love, Ends

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• Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Soul, States

  Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall (2008). “Marc Chagall: 1887-1985”, Taschen America Llc

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• In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

  Marc Chagall

  Art

  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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• Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

  Marc Chagall

  Freedom, Soul, Abstract Painting

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• 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

  Love, Life, Art

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• All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

  Marc Chagall

  Reality, Serenity, World

  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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• 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.

  Marc Chagall

  Flower, Mean, Tragedy

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• For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.

  Marc Chagall

  Heart, Glasses, World

  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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• All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Color, 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.

  Marc Chagall

  Emotional, Names, Purses

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• Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

  Marc Chagall

  Love, Emotion, Interest

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• If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not fear to be himself, to express only himself. If he is absolutely and entirely sincere, what he says and does will be acceptable to others.

  Marc Chagall

  Heart, Artist, Doe

  "From the archive, 1 June 1961: Chagall at Vence" by Audrey Davis, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

  Marc Chagall

  Color, Vibrations

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• Great art picks up where nature ends.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Ends, Artist

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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 Chagall

  Littles, Paint, Jew

  Susan P. Compton, Marc Chagall (1990). “Marc Chagall: my life, my dream : Berlin and Paris, 1922-1940”, Prestel Pub

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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.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Lying, Sleep

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

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Spring, Movement

  Marc Chagall, I︠A︡kov Aleksandrovich Tugendkholʹd, 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)”, Stanford Univ Pr

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• 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

  Stars, Air, Magic

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922" edited by Christoph Vitali, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, exhibition catalogue (p. 41), 1991.

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• Time is a river without banks.

  Marc Chagall

  Time, Rivers

  Benjamin Harshav, Marc Chagall, Barbara Harshav (2004). “Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative”, p.1004, Stanford University Press

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• Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?

  Marc Chagall

  Prayer, Sadness, Giving

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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.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Flower, Men

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