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 my hand—as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it is bad art.
—Marc Chagall
Topics: Art
In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.
—Marc Chagall
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties
In our lives there is a simple colour, as on an artists palatte, which provides the meaning of life and art. it is the colour of love.
—Marc Chagall
Topics: Romance
Great art picks up where nature ends.
—Marc Chagall
Topics: Art
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
—Marc Chagall
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
—Marc Chagall
Topics: Theater
Time is a river without banks.
—Marc Chagall
Topics: Time Management
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
—Marc Chagall
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding.
—Marc Chagall
Topics: Gardening
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