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
art expression inspiration-and-creativity
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
art spring movement
Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.
art mind problem
Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.
mother justify hard
My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.
art blue soul
But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.
art finishing-it finishing-up
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it
art prayer giving
What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?
art soul sacred
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.
country soul my-soul
Mine alone is the country of my soul.
art men our-world
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