Quotes About Chagall

My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

Marc Chagall's White Crucifixion (1938) was painted shortly after Kristallnacht—the horrifying, widespread Nazi raid on German Jews. The painting shows a world swallowed up by violence, including the figure of Christ on the cross with a Jewish prayer shawl draped around his loins.

walked in under the orange legs of the three-story Calder designed for Chicago's Federal Building. We pride ourselves in Chicago on our outdoor sculptures by famous artists. My favorite is the bronze wind chimes in front of the Standard Oil Building, but I have a secret fondness for Chagall's mosaics in front of the First National Bank. My artist friends tell me they are banal.

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.

The intensity of that gaze never unnerved her. He was Marc Chagall, and he looked at her neither as man nor father but as an artist in the throes of creation. It

The whole scene had a dreamlike quality, like a Chagall painting come to life.

The Arquitectonica office, which produced the celebrated glass condominium on Brickell Avenue with the fifty-foot cube cut from its center, the frequently photographed "sky patio" in which there floated a palm tree, a Jacuzzi, and a lipstick-red spiral staircase, accompanied its elevations with crayon sketches, all moons and starry skies and airborne maidens, as in a Chagall.

To be attached to one's dreams and yet to advocate reality constituted no contradiction in Chagall's eyes.

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.