"Great art picks up where nature ends."

Google informed me that today is Marc Chagall's birthday. (What did we do before Google provided us with so much useless information?)

He is one of my favorite artists. I have a couple of prints of his and somewhere I have a book of postcards that I bought at a museum when I was in D.C. last year. I think that they are packed up in a box in the garage. I hope they are anyway, since I never did anything with them because I moved pretty much right after I got home from D.C.

I love the color he used in his work and the lines and shapes of his paintings. He has a very interesting life story which can be found in a summary on Wikipedia or other various art websites.

So in honor of Chagall's birthday here are a few of my favorite works of his.

"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."

"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."

"Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love."

"My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent."

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

Happy 121st Birthday Marc!