Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
Marc Chagall Quotes
When I am finishing a picture I hold some G-d-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a kind of 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 is bad art.
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| Birth: | 6th July, 1887 |
| Death: | 28th March, 1985 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Artist |
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Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Belarussian-Russian-French artist. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century". An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.
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