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
time rivers
Time is a river without banks.
genius pity paint
What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.
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.
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.
imagination likes moments
I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
christ type martyr
For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.
july june judgement
My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum..
moss be-careful careful
One must always be careful not to let one's work be covered with moss.
adversity poverty youth
In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.
understanding-nature would-be fairy-tale
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.