Marc Chagall — French Artist born on July 07, 1887, died on March 28, 1985

Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian-French artist.:21 An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints... (wikipedia)

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.
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
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.
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.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.