Marc Chagall Quotes

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Artists need to express.

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.