"Every good composition is above all a work……" — 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 his work suffering impoverishment."
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Diego Rivera
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17 Quotes by Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera has 17 quotes on this site.
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I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.
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To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw…
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Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
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July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late…
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Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.
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I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would…
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I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy…
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As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been…
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Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the…
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I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great…
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An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that…
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Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.
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More Abstraction Quotes
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one of 249 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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