Marc Chagall Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 7, 1887 - March 28, 1985

Topics

FlowerArtTreeManI AmPainting

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

Anna Chancellor

MeInnocentYoungNeverLeadJust

Shooting should not be about delivering something I've prepared; it should be a live process of finding things out. When things happen that you haven't planned, that's when the film comes alive.

Stellan Skarsgard

LiveProcessFindingYouAliveOut

My books - I kid you not - are very often shelved between DeLillo and de Sade. Which not only completely cracks me up, but it seems like an encouraging message from the universe: between those two, there's a lot of wiggle room. I feel just fine there.

Stacey D'Erasmo

MeUniverseFeelYouKidRoom

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

Robert Englund

GoodBusinessI AmPeopleSurvive

I think all food except for maybe pizza and Mexican food is better in Japan.

Lou Barlow

FoodPizzaThinkBetterMexican

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

Joyce Meyer

GodEnjoySometimesPresenceSit

I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. I'm also a blues geek.

Johnny Flynn

BluesBigGeekFanBob DylanBob

Every time I shoot a turnaround, I feel like nobody can block it.

DeMar DeRozan

TimeFeelNobodyShootI Feel Like

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Chinua Achebe

LifeAgePeopleGrowing UpThink

As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the first 'Star Wars' movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.

Philip Reeve

ScienceChildMeScience Fiction

I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.

Portia de Rossi

WorkLoveDrivingEnjoyActingUp

Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward.

Tim Kennedy

CourageFireColdFindingWayCrack

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