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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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Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.
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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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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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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.
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In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.
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If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not fear to be himself, to express only himself. If he is absolutely and entirely sincere, what he says and does will be acceptable to others.
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I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.
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My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.
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Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.
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Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music everything is vibration.
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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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Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.
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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.
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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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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.
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Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.
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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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Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?
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Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.
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If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.
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