Marc Chagall Short Quotes

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In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

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All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

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You might say that in my mother's womb I had already noticed the purity of the colors of the flowers.

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For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.

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I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the little Jew of Vitebsk.

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I don't know if color chose me or I chose color, but since childhood I've been married to color in its pure state.

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If I weren't a Jew (in the sense in which I use the word) then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.

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Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.

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Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.

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To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

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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 art. It is the color of love.

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Despite all the troubles of the world in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love.

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The soil that had nourished the roots of my art was Vitebsk [his home town in Russia]; but my art needed Paris as much as a tree needs water.

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The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.

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In response I am sending you some pictures which I painted in Paris out of homesickness for Russia. They are not very typical of me; I have selected the most modest ones for the Russian exhibition.

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The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.

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