Art Quote by Diego Rivera Download Open image “Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.” — Diego Rivera ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Raises Standards Taste Works of art
You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view. — Sean Stone Copy Share Image
In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“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… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“In my previous murals, I had tried to achieve a harmony in my painting with the architecture of the building. But to attempt such… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“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… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a mother does… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste. — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
