Frasi di Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Data di nascita: 7. Luglio 1887
Data di morte: 28. Marzo 1985
Marc Chagall è stato un pittore bielorusso naturalizzato francese, d'origine ebraica chassidica.
Il suo vero nome era Moishe Segal ; il suo nome russo era Mark Zacharovič Šagalov, abbreviato in Šagal .
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poeta e scrittore russoFrasi Marc Chagall
„Il mio sogno è la scala di Giacobbe | Vedi come io porto la mia croce | Il quadro lungamente faticato | Canta e piange fra il cielo e la terra“
— Marc Chagall
da Sulla scala di Giacobbe (1968), p. 75
„Io sono un tuo figlio inetto | Che sulla terra appena cammina | Tu hai colmato le mie mani povere | Di splendidi colori e di pennelli | Ma ora io non so come dipingerti“
— Marc Chagall
da Tu mi hai colmato le mani (1940-1045), p. 70
„Vado in brandelli, in fiamme | Gli ultimi chiarori dei miei anni | Ciò che dipingo mi diventa un sogno | Cammino e mi perdo, io mi perdo || Non cercatemi oggi né domani | Sono partito e da me lontanissimo | Io sono in una | Tomba inimmaginabile di lacrime“
— Marc Chagall
da La città (1930-1035), p. 68
„It's only my town (Chagall was born in Vitebsk), mine, which I have rediscovered. I come back to it with emotion. It was at that time that I painted my Vitebsk series of 1914. (Chagall couldn't go back to Paris because of the outbreak of the first World War in 1914) I painted everything that met my eyes. I painted at my window; I never walked down the street without my box of paint.“
— Marc Chagall
Quote in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 31
But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard. I said to Lunatcharsky [the political communist commissar for Education, ca. 1918] 'Whatever you do, don't ask me why I painted in blue or green, and why you can see a calf inside the cow's belly, etc. On the other hand you're welcome: if Marx is so wise, let him come back to life and explain it himself'. I showed him my canvases.
Quote in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 34
„If Russian painters were condemned to become the pupils of the West they were, I think, rather unfaithful ones by their very nature. The best Russian realist conflicts with the realism of Courbet. The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves on perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissaro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root. Why my language itself is foreign to them. Why people do not place confidence in me. Why the artistic circles fail to recognize me. Why in Russia I am entirely useless... In Paris, it seemed to me that I was discovering everything, above all a mastery of technique... It was not in technique alone that I sought the meaning of art then. It was as if the gods had stood before me... I had the impression that we are still only roaming on the surface of matter, that we are afraid to plunge into chaos, to shatter and overthrow beneath our feet the familiar surface. (reaction on his first arrival in Paris, 1910)“
— Marc Chagall
Quote of Chagall in: Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 262, (translation Daphne Woodward)
„At present there is an extremely exaggerated formation of groups (students on the School of Art in Vitebsk) around 'trend'; there are 1. young people following Malevich and 2. young people following me. We both belong to the left-wing artistic movement, although we have different ideas about ends and means. Obviously it would take too long to talk about this problem now... But there is one thing I will tell you: Although I was born in Russia - and what is more: in the "settlement territory" – I was trained abroad and am all the more sensitive to everything that is taking place here in the field of art (the fine arts). The memory of the splendour of the original is much to painful for me.. [to live – crossed out]“
— Marc Chagall
Quote in Chagall's letter to Pavel Davidovitch Ettering, 2 April, 1920, as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 73
