“I don't know where he [ Marc Chagall ] gets those images; he must have an angel in his head.”

— Pablo Picasso

As quoted in Marc Chagall, – a Biography, by Sidney Alexander, Cassell, London, 1978, p. 33
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Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stag… 1881–1973

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