Diego Rivera

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

— Diego Rivera

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

— Diego Rivera

“you have to trust a TRUE compliment as muc as a critique.”

— Diego Rivera

Art is like ham-it nourishes people.

— Diego Rivera

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

— Diego Rivera

I do not believe in God, yet I believe in Picasso.

— Diego Rivera

The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.

— Diego Rivera

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

— Diego Rivera

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

— Diego Rivera

If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the…

— Diego Rivera

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and…

— Diego Rivera

“Fidelity is a bourgeois virtue and it exists only to exploit people and to obtain an economic gain”

— Diego Rivera

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from…

— Diego Rivera

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life

— Diego Rivera

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the…

— Diego Rivera

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I…

— Diego Rivera

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict…

— Diego Rivera

I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to…

— Diego Rivera

“I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the…

— Diego Rivera

“I recommend her to you, not as a husband but as an enthusiastic admirer of her work, acid and tender, hard as…

— Diego Rivera

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects…

— Diego Rivera

I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is…

— Diego Rivera

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels,…

— Diego Rivera

All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't…

— Diego Rivera

“From seven in the morning until half past one the next morning -- that's quite a record time for a visitor to…

— Diego Rivera

“From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a…

— Diego Rivera

“As I rode back to Detroit, a vision of Henry Ford's industrial empire kept passing before my eyes. In my ears, I…

— Diego Rivera

“I spent the two and one-half months between my meeting with the Art Commission and the beginning of my actual mural work…

— Diego Rivera

“In my previous murals, I had tried to achieve a harmony in my painting with the architecture of the building. But to…

— Diego Rivera

“The first thing I encountered on entering the museum was the earliest steam engine built in England. As I walked on, marveling…

— Diego Rivera

“Not long after coming to Detroit, I heard of a museum of machinery in Dearborn which had been set up by Henry…

— Diego Rivera

“While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which…

— Diego Rivera