Marc Chagall Quotes

Life and art are inseparable.

Art is a sense of magic.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.

Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

Art and life are inseparable.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important we keep creating.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.