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Diego Rivera
4 quotes
“When we began, we had no opportunities; we prepared in silence and created our own opportunity.”
Diego Rivera (1886–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here it is—the might, the power, the energy, the sadness, the glory, the youthfulness of our lands.”
Diego Rivera (1886–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here in Mexico…I find that very simple intuitive persons, in common with a highly sophisticated and prepared type, accept my way of painting. But the bourgeois mind (here as elsewhere called “cultured,” I believe does not. This bourgeois mind of Mexico is that of a special virulence, for being mixed in race for only a few generations, it is also lamentably mixed in its ‘culture.’ It is, in a word, saturated with European bad taste, the finer European influences having been almost wholly rejected by the Creole of Mexico…”
Diego Rivera (1886–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your engineers are your great artists and these highways are the most beautiful things I have seen in your beautiful country…Out of them and the machine will issue the style of tomorrow.”
Diego Rivera (1886–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source