One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

Quote by Marc Chagall

Topics: Painting Quotes

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

One day a student asked Taiga, What is the most difficult part of painting? Taiga...

One day a student asked Taiga, What is the most difficult part of painting? Taiga...

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around...

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around...

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides...

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides...

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of...

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of...

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made...

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made...

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it -...

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it -...

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made...

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made...

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences...

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences...

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning...

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning...

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my...

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my...

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is...

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is...