Diego Rivera Quotes

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• I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.
• To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
• Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
• July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the…
• Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.
• I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to…
• Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his…
• I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I…
• As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who…
• Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in…
• I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree,…
• An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist…
• Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.
• The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.
• My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.
• Art is like ham-it nourishes people.
• If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim…

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