Quotes by Diego Rivera - Page 1

Art is like ham-it nourishes people.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Art
Ham
People
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My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Mexican
Painting
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I do not believe in God, yet I believe in Picasso.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Believe
Believe In God
I Believe
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I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Art
Smile
Believe
I Believe
I Believe In
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Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Art
Standards
Taste
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The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Artist
Revolution
Soldier
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Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
Diego Rivera / Painter
Art
Agonizing
Canvas
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Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Artist
Body
Female
Sexuality
Breaks
Taboos
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To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
Diego Rivera / Painter
Art
Artist
Growth
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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 / Painter
Artist
Levels
Trying
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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 mere talent.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Done
Pride
Thinking
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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 of this disgusting trait.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Disgusting
Frida
Happy Friday
Hurt
Obvious
Victim
Loved
Trait
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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 the moment she died, 27 years later.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Artist
Died
Frida
Friday
Years
Life Moment My Life
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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 most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Artist
Beloved
Forever
Frida
Happy Friday
July
Lost
Lost Love
Tragic
Wonderful
Life Love Day
Realized
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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.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Painter
Suffering
Very Good
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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 wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Artist
Faithful
Vision
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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 am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Atheist
Good Friend
Order
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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 humanity feels, if the artist isn't capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won't put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn't a great artist.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Artist
Fighting
Sacrifice
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All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Art
Differences
Strong
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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.
Diego Rivera / Painter
Art
Mexican
Roots
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