Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Marc Zakharovich Chagallwas a Russian-French artist. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth7 July 1887
CityLiozna, Belarus
CountryFrance
artist jew ifs
If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
nature attitude eye
The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.
soul written
Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.
color vibrations
Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
russia needs stranger
Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me.
littles sweetness
Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?
psychics dimensions painting
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.
color flood humans
I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.
imagination likes moments
I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
love life art
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.
christ type martyr
For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.
stars hands sky
My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.
children
I am a child who is getting on.
freedom soul abstract-painting
The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.