Marc Chagall

"Great art picks up where nature ends."

"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."

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."

"Great art picks up where nature ends."

"Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love."

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."