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.

In the United States the Union Church of Pocantico Hills contains a set of Chagall windows commemorating the prophets which was commissioned by John D. Many of his works were updated versions of paintings he had made in Russia transposed into Fauvist or Cubist keys. "Unanimously the press declared Chagall's new work to be a great contribution to French culture.

Before World War I he traveled between St. Petersburg Paris and Berlin. According to art historian Michael J.