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In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.
Marc Chagall
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Marc Chagall
Age: 97 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 7
Died: 1985
Died: March 28
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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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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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Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.
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Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.
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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 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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The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
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Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love
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What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?
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Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?
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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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Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.
Marc Chagall
In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.
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Color is vibration like music everything is vibration.
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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 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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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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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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