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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Konstantin Dmitrievič Bal'mont1
poeta russo
Michail Jurjevič Lermontov40
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Evgenij Igorevič Kissin4
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Sergej Aleksandrovič Esenin65
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Evgenij Aleksandrovič Evtušenko5
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Silvano del Monte Athos8
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Pavel Nikolaevič Evdokimov30
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Konstantin Eduardovič Ciolkovskij1
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Aleksandr Zinovyev5
scrittore russoFrasi Marc Chagall
„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
„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
„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
„Only the great distance that separates Paris from my native town prevented me from going back… It was the Louvre that put end to all these hesitations. When I walked around the circular Veronese room and the rooms that the works of Manet, Delacroix and Courbet are in, I desired nothing more. In my imagination Russia [where Chagall was born] took the form of a basket suspended from a parachute. The deflated pear of the balloon was hanging down, growing cold and descending slowly in the course of the years. This was how Russian art appeared to me, or something of the sort… It was as if Russian art had been fatally condemned to remain in the wake of the West. (a later quote on his first arrival in Paris, 1910)“
— Marc Chagall
Quote in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock -, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 261, (translation Daphne Woodward)
„Now at least 'artists have the upper hand' in the town (Vitebsk). They get totally engrossed in their disputes about art (between constructivists and suprematists), I am utterly exhausted and 'dream' of 'abroad'… After all, there is no more suitable place for artists to be (for me, at least) than at the easel, and I dream of being able to devote myself exclusively to my pictures. Of course, little by little one paints something, but it's not the real thing. (Chagall was director of the Art School of Vitebsk, including many conflicts)“
— Marc Chagall
Quote in his 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. 74
„The Jews might well, were they of such a mind (as I am, lament the disappearance of all those who painted the wooden synagogues in the small towns and villages (oh why haven't I gone to my grave with them!), and the carvers of the wooden 'school mallets' – 'quiet boy!' (and if you should see them in Ansky's collection, you’ll get a shock!). But is there really any difference between my ancestor from Mohiliev, who painted the synagogue there, and myself, who painted the Jewish theater in Moscow (and a good theater it is at that)?… I am convinced that, were I to stop shaving, you would see in me a deceptive likeness.“
— Marc Chagall
Quote from Bletlach (Leaflet - essay in Yiddish), Marc Chagall; published in 'Shtrom' No. 1, 1922
