Marc Chagall Famous 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 theres a clash between the two, its bad art."
"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."
Marc Chagall Quotations
It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents.
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
Samuel Butler
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
Richard Adams
Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.
Erich Fromm
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.
Eric Pio
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."
Bertrand Russell
"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name."
Aldous Huxley
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.
Andy Anderson