Quotes by Marc Chagall

"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."

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"Great art picks up where nature ends."

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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 there's a clash between the two, it's bad art."

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"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."

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"Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love."

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"Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life."

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