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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.
Marc Chagall
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Marc Chagall
Age: 97 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 7
Died: 1985
Died: March 28
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Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.
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In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.
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One must always be careful not to let one's work be covered with moss.
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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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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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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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Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.
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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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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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All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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On cannot be precise, and still be true.
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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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Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
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The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
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Mine alone is the country of my soul.
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