Quotations

"For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world."

— Marc Chagall, Belarussian-French artist, born 1887

"I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors."

— Marc Chagall, Belarussian-French artist, born 1887

"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."

— Marc Chagall, Belarussian-French artist, born 1887

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

— Marc Chagall, Belarussian-French artist, born 1887

"You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do without flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies."

— Marc Chagall, Belarussian-French artist, born 1887

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

— Marc Chagall, Belarussian_French artist, born 1887

"Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?"

— Marc Chagall, Belarussian-French artist, born 1887

"With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying."

— Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player, born 1936

"I only drink champagne on two occasions. When I am in love and when I am not."

— Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, born 1883

"All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them."

— Lon Chaney, Jr, American actor, born 1906

"Even a man who is pure in heart, and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfs bane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright."

— Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor, born 1906

"I wanted to remind people that the lowest types of humanity may have within them the capacity for supreme self-sacrifice. The dwarfed, misshapen beggar of the streets may have the noblest ideals. Most of my roles since The Hunchback of Notre Dame, such as "The Phantom of the Opera", "He Who Gets Slapped", "The Unholy Three", etc., have carried the theme of self-sacrifice or renunciation. These are the stories which I wish to do."

— Lon Chaney, American actor, born 1883

"Vanity is a personal parasite that must be fed until it is gorged and renders its victim a failure."

— Lon Chaney, American actor, born 1883

"We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved."

— Harry Chapin, American singer, born 1942