Diego Rivera

Quotes

When we began, we had no opportunities; we prepared in silence and created our own opportunity.
- On making your own artistic opportunities in the book Conversations with Diego Rivera: The Monster in His Labyrinth

Here it is—the might, the power, the energy, the sadness, the glory, the youthfulness of our lands.
- On the layout of New York City (as quoted in the book The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera)

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…
- On how his work was received Mexico (as quoted in the book The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera)

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.
- On being enchanted by engineers in “Diego Rivera: A Man and His Murals” (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute)

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