Marc Chagall Quotes

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• Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
• All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
• Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
• 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…
• 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…
• Great art picks up where nature ends.
• If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
• I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
• 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…
• The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
• The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.
• All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.
• I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth…
• 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…
• Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
• Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.
• I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.
• Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.
• My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from…
• I am a child who is getting on.

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