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Marc Chagall
Age: 97 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 7
Died: 1985
Died: March 28
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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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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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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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In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.
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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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My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.
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Art seems to me to be above all a state of 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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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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In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.
Marc Chagall
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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Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.
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The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
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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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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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I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.
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Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.
Marc Chagall
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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