Inspirational Art Quotes by the famous Russian (now called Belarus) born French artist Marc Chagall
born Mark Zakharovich Shagalov – Vitebsk, Russian Empire – 7th of July, 1887 / Died 28th of March, 1985
Famous Marc Chagall paintings included semi-surreal works that were sometimes childlike and filled with fantasy, yet at other times quite serious and contemplative. His figures and animals sometimes floated in the air or were contorted into impossible positions.
Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?
+ Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love.
+ I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.
+ The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the ye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.
+ If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.
+ Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the words of the prophets with closer attention, they would find the keys to life.
+ My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.
+ 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.
+ My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.
+ But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.
+ Great art picks up where nature ends.
