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
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.
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.
littles sweetness
Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?
artist good-person genuine
We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.
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.
color vibrations
Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
knowing thumbs fingers
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
soul written
Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.
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.
may taste painting
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.
genius pity paint
What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.
reality paris thank-god
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.
prayer sadness giving
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?