Chagall Quotes
More Chagall Quotes
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
andré breton— "Chagall – a biography", Jackie Wullschlagger, Knopf, Publisher, New York 2008, text from inside-cover
The sun has only ever shone for me in France (it certainly did that!). I have got used to beating the streets of Paris, happy beyond words dreaming of a life 125 years long - with the Louvre radiant in the distance. (Chagall couldn’t go back to Paris because of the outbreak of the first World War, fh). Having ended up in the Russian provinces, << I have decided to die >>.
marc chagall— a letter to Sergei K. Markovsky, 1915; as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 149
