Marc Chagall

"At present there is an extremely exaggerated formation of groups around 'trend'; there are 1. young people following Malevich and 2. young people following me. We both belong to the left-wing artistic…"

"'There you are', said Efros , leading me into a dark room, 'These walls are all yours, you can do what you like with them'. It was a completely demolished apartment that had been abandoned by bourgeoi…"

"article about Chagall's works in 'The Chagall Museum in Nice; Gerry art in Nice, Oct. 2013"

"For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr. That is how I understood him in 1908 when I used this figure for the first time.. .It was under the influence of the pogroms. T…"

"Listen what happened to me when I was in the fifth form , in the drawing lesson. An old-timer in the front row, the one who pinched me the most often, suddenly showed me a sketch on tissue paper, copi…"

"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 roo…"

"It's only my town , 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. I painted everything that met my eyes. I painted at m…"

"My grandfather, a teacher of religion, could think of nothing better than to place my father – his eldest son, still a child – as a clerk with a firm of herring wholesalers, and his youngest son with …"