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The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
Marc Chagall
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Marc Chagall
Age: 97 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 7
Died: 1985
Died: March 28
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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.
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I am working in Paris . I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working.
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To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
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In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.
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My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.
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I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.
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On cannot be precise, and still be true.
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Color is vibration like music everything is vibration.
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All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
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Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?
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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.
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Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.
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Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.
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Mine alone is the country of my soul.
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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.
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The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root.
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If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
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Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the words of the prophets with closer attention, they would find the keys to life.
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If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.
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Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.
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