"I know now that he who hopes to……" — Diego Rivera
"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, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican."
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17 Quotes by Diego Rivera
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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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Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense…
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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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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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