"What I mean by 'abstract' is something which……" — 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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Marc Chagall
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59 Quotes by Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall has 59 quotes on this site.
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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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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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