Marc Chagall quotes, the Russian-born artist on painting art & life - free resource of art history

Marc Chagall in quotes - the famous artist on his painting art & stories on his life in Russia, France and in the United States - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in art history
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Chagall’s artist quotes - here selected - cover his early Russian years in a Jewish neighborhood in Vitebsk, with his future wife Bella. Moreover his quotes tell a lot about his several artistic stays in Paris and his later artistic life in America. Chagall painted colorful, representational and poetical paintings with many motives of Jewish life or imagination. Picasso loved the fantasy in his painted stories, as he expressed several times.

Marc Chagall was a Russian-born artist from the city Vitebsk. There was the location of his Jewish youth which became a rich source for his later art. Most of his paintings are pictures of Jewish life (a.o. his famous painting 'The Fiddler’) from his Russian youth. He became a very famous artist, worldwide.
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Some selected quotes of the famous Russian-born artist Marc Chagall - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’…non-figurative painting doesn’t help if there are no foundations, either innate or acquired through hard work… .Why don’t we say clearly: ‘That is freedom, and this is commitment to the subject and - to each tree its berries’, but let it be a tree and not a donkey…’ - quote of Chagall in his letter to A. N. Benois, 1918

• ’…I furiously attacked the floors and walls of the Moscow Theater. My mural paintings sight there, in obscurity. Have you seen them? Rant and rave, my contemporaries! In one way or another, my first theatrical alphabet gave you a belly-ache. Not modest? I’ll leave that to my grandmother: it bores me. Despise me, if you like.’ Chagall’s quote, c. 1921, in: ‘Chagall in the Yiddish Theater’, Avram Kampf

• ’When I painted Christ’s parents I was thinking of my own parents. The bearded man is the Child’s father. He is my father.’ - quote of Chagall, c. 1950; as cited in 'From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture, Matthew B. Hoffman; Stanford University Press, 2007
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  selection of free art-resources on the famous Russian-born artist Chagall:

  • extended biographical notes of Chagall, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Chagall
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Marc Chagall, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marc_Chagall
  • images of Chagall’s painting art, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Chagall
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]