"If a symbol should be discovered in a……" — Marc Chagall
"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."
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59 Quotes by Marc Chagall
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Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
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All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
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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…
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In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and…
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Great art picks up where nature ends.
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If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
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I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In…
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The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
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The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.
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All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.
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