"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 communist commissar for Education, 1918, fh) 'Whatever you do, don't ask me why I painted in blue or green, and why you can see a calf inside the cow's belly, etc. On the other hand you're welcome: if Marx is so wise, let him come back to life and explain it himself'. I showed him my canvases."

-- Marc Chagall

#Wise Quotes #Blue Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.”
“For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.”
“Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.”

Source : Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company
“Age is artificial. It's soulless. It doesn't matter one bit.”
“As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”

Source : Speech at Annual Meeting of West Midlands Area Conservative Political Centre, Birmingham, 20 April 1968, in 'Observer' 21 April 1968
“Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.”
“The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.”

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