Occupation: Artist Birth: July 6, 1887 Death: March 28, 1985
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul..
For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr..
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..
In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love..
Mine alone is the country of my soul..
What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and perva….
But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures..
My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent..
My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them….
Love and fantasy, go hand in hand..
Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul..
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 com….
What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint..
What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone el….
Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me..
We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one..
Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, jus….
I am working in Paris . I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reali….
Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration..
The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes..
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing..