Quote by Marc Chagall
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to i

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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Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. – 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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In our life there is a single color, as on an artists palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. – Marc Chagall

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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. – William Blake

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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. – Albert Einstein

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When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Resolve and thou art free. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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