Creative Quotations from . . .
Marc Chagall
(1887-1985) born on Jul 07
Russian-French "painter, graphic artist". "He was well known for his colorful "cubic" fantasy narrative paintings depicting Russian village life."
 
   
F
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing."

R
"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."
A
I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
N
"When I'm finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, or a tree branch -- as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash, it's bad art."
K
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R: In acatalog for the Musee des Arts Decoratifs.
A: "Recalled on his death, 28 Mar 1985."
N: "In "Saturday Evening Post" (New York), 2 Dec 1962."
K: "In "The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century," by Frank S. Pepper, 1987."



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