„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
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Marc Chagall
Data di nascita: 7. Luglio 1887
Data di morte: 28. Marzo 1985
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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 .
Frasi Marc Chagall
„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
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„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
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„.. But it doesn't frighten me, because I studied in France, thank God, and I know of no artist in history who was not 'literary' when it came down to it. Not a single one. And even if they don't appear to be, I know of none and you at least don't recall them, because there is nothing to recall... Sometime or other I'd like to see a << pure >> artist, but I didn't even find one in France. Obviously the trouble is that one approaches painting from the other side, so that the word << sujet >> conceals the point of the thing. Yet even the most beautiful and << emptiest >> sujet (an apple, a grape or any << non-figurative painting >>) doesn't help if there are no foundations, either innate or acquired through hard work... Why don't we say clearly: << That is freedom, and this is commitment to the subject >> and << to each tree its berries >>, but let it be a tree and not a donkey..“
— Marc Chagall
Quote in Chagall's letter to A. N. Benois, 1918; as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 150
„.. In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in the name of that spirit which lives on in our teaching and in our vision of humanity and art, the spirit which can lead us Jews down the true and just path. But along the way, peoples will spill our blood, and that of others.“
— Marc Chagall
In the last lines of his lecture at the Congress of the Jewish Scientific Institute Vilnius, in 1935, as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 58
„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
