Quote by Marc Chagall
Great art picks up where nature ends. - Marc Chagall

Great art picks up where nature ends. – Marc Chagall

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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 theres a clash between the two, its bad art. – Marc Chagall

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All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. – Marc Chagall

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde

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