Art Quote by Marc Chagall

“We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.” quote by Marc Chagall — Download Open image

“We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.”

Marc Chagall

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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…

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Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

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For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.

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The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

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Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

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I am a child who is getting on.

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“Art seems to me to be a state of soul more than anything else.”

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Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

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In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in the name of that spirit which lives on in our teaching and in our vision of humanity and art, the spirit which can lead us Jews down the true and just path.…

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“I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.”

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