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Art Quotes by Marc Chagall
- 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.
- 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…
- Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.
- In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.
- 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…
- You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.
- Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter…
- 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…
- When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it
- But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov