Marc Chagall Quotes

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Marc Chagall

Love, Around, Interests

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Marc Chagall

Friends, Lovers, Colors

Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall

Art, Nature, Great

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
Marc Chagall

Work, Life, Money

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
Marc Chagall

Work, Moment, Whatever

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Marc Chagall

Love, Life, Art

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.
Marc Chagall

Sleep, Long, Sense

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
Marc Chagall

Heart, Nothing, Everything

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.
Marc Chagall

Love, Marriage, Give

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
Marc Chagall

Knowing, Born, Educated

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: July 7, 1887

Died: March 28, 1985

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