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
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
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
—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
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding.
—Marc Chagall
Topics: Gardening
Time is a river without banks.
—Marc Chagall
Topics: Time Management
In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.
—Marc Chagall
Topics: Difficulties, Adversity
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
—Marc Chagall
Great art picks up where nature ends.
—Marc Chagall
Topics: Art
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