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
moving hope-and-love ends
If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.
healing color vibrations
Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
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.
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.
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.
time rivers
Time is a river without banks.
genius pity paint
What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.
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.
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.
imagination likes moments
I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.