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> [“I recommend her to you, not as a husband but as an enthusiastic admirer of her work, acid and tender, hard as steel and delicate and fine as a butterfly's wing, lovable as a beautiful smile, and as profound and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/i-recommend-her-to-you-not-as-a-husband-but-as-an-enthusiastic/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

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## More by Diego Rivera

> [I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/i-did-not-know-it-then-but-frida-had-already-become-the-most/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 heard the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/as-i-rode-back-to-detroit-a-vision-of-henry-ford-s-industrial-empire/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

> [Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/looking-back-upon-my-work-today-i-think-the-best-i-have-done-grew-out/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

> [“In my previous murals, I had tried to achieve a harmony in my painting with the architecture of the building. But to attempt such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/in-my-previous-murals-i-had-tried-to-achieve-a-harmony-in-my-painting/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

> [Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/only-the-work-of-art-itself-can-raise-the-standard-of-taste/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

> [Art is like ham-it nourishes people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/art-is-like-ham-it-nourishes-people/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 in soaking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/i-spent-the-two-and-one-half-months-between-my-meeting-with-the-art/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

> [“From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a mother does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/from-sunrise-to-sunset-i-was-in-the-forest-sometimes-far-from-the/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

> [July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/july-13-1954-was-the-most-tragic-day-of-my-life-i-had-lost-my-beloved/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

> [“you have to trust a TRUE compliment as muc as a critique.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/you-have-to-trust-a-true-compliment-as-muc-as-a-critique/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

> [“While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/while-working-in-california-i-met-william-valentiner-and-edgar/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

> [The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/the-artist-must-try-to-raise-the-level-of-taste-of-the-masses-not/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

> [To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/to-be-an-artist-one-must-never-shirk-from-the-truth-as-he-understands/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

> [My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/my-cubist-paintings-are-my-most-mexican/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

> [Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/every-good-composition-is-above-all-a-work-of-abstraction-all-good/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

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