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
heart glasses world
For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.
hands fantasy hand-in-hand
Love and fantasy, go hand in hand.
art lying sleep
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.
mean eye psychics
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.
thinking two giving
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.
time rivers
Time is a river without banks.
life color opposites
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
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.
life work labor-day
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
emotional names purses
My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.
reality serenity world
All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.
flower mean tragedy
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.
stars air magic
The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fairy tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.
littles paint jew
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.