"My cubist paintings are my most Mexican." — Diego Rivera
"My cubist paintings are my most Mexican."
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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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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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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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More Cubist Quotes
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one of 10 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel:…
— Michael Ondaatje
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New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
— Francis Picabia
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About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of…
— Sonia Delaunay
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I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
— Thomas A. Edison
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Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those…
— Georges Braque
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What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give…
— Georges Braque
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When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the…
— Aristide Maillol
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After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the…
— Robert Bateman
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