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 there's a clash between the two, it's bad art."

Marc Chagall on Art

More quotes about Art

• "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

  Albert Einstein on Art

• "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

  Vincent Van Gogh on Art

• "The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

  Abraham Lincoln on Art

• "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

  Aristotle on Art

• "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

  Oscar Wilde on Art

More quotes by Marc Chagall

• "Great art picks up where nature ends."

• "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."

• "Great art picks up where nature ends."

• "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."