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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. George Santayana		Wednesday Mar 25, 2026
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a 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's bad art. Marc Chagall

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Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall (Yiddish: מאַרק שאַגאַל‎; Russian: Марк Захарович Шага́л Mark Zaharovic Sagal; Belarusian: Мойша Захаравіч Шагалаў Mojša Zaharavič Šagałaŭ) (7 July 1887 - 28 March 1985) was a French painter of Russian-Jewish origin who was born in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. Among the celebrated painters of the 20th century, he is associated with the modern movements after impressionism.

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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a 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's bad art.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a 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's bad art.