I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
Marc ChagallRead
Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that color and music share a similar essence in their vibrational nature, emphasizing the interconnectedness of all forms of expression.
Marc Chagall's quote reflects his belief in the intrinsic relationship between color and music, where both are seen as forms of vibration that resonate with the human experience. This perspective invites us to consider how visual and auditory elements shape our perceptions and emotions, creating a harmonious interplay within art and life as a whole.
In practice
In a presentation on how music influences visual art, this quote could illustrate the parallels between the two forms.
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.
For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.
A director must push his actors to the utmost limit to get everything possible out of each scene - without being corny or sentimental or going overboard.
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.
I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.
Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up together like a stack of cards. That is what it is like, the awful, wonderful brightness of Fairy colors. Try to smell the hard, pale wood sending up sharp, green smoke into the afternoon. To feel the mellow, golden sun on your skin, more gentle and cozier and more golden than even the light of your favorite reading nook at the close of the day.
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