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Marc Chagall [1887-1985] French
Rank: 102
Artist (with paintings)
Primitivism


Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian-French artist. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.

Art, Love, Work, Great, Imagination, Marriage, Nature



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If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. Imagination
101
Great art picks up where nature ends. Art, Great, Nature
102
I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment. Work
103
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. Art, Love
104
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
105
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. Love
106
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
107
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 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's bad art. Art
108
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
109
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. Marriage
110
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. Work
111

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