Diego Rivera

“My art is my life, and my life is Mexico.”

“Art is not for the elite; it belongs to everyone.”

“I paint what I see, what I feel, and what I believe.”

“The mural is the art of the people, for the people, by the people.”

“I have always believed that art is a weapon of social struggle.”

“Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, and almost immediately the Left press in the United States began to publish cartoons hostile to his regime. But throughout the decade barely a handful of artists, whatever their political preferences, addressed the increasingly virulent outbreaks of anti”

“Later on, I learned about the Mexican muralists that painted beautiful images on the walls of public buildings. Diego Rivera , Orozco, Tamayo, and others. Alfredo Arreguín letter”

“Diego Rivera: A Man and His Murals”

“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”

“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”