All Quotes

“The unconventional and uninhibited way of living was a part of my life. I won't be like that now.”

“He made the first Gaelic football goal in a regular football match. We won't forget. Argentina's branch of the Gaelic Athletic Association , after Maradona's death, noting that the the hand of God would not have been a foul in every sport.”

“I made mistakes, but I also learned from them. That is what matters.”

“The ball does not stain.”

“I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music.”

“Football is the most beautiful and healthy sport in the world.”

“You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”

“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 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”

“Diego Rivera: A Man and His Murals”

“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”

“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”

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

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

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

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

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

“Raphael , to be plain with you, for I prefer to be candid and outspoken, does not please me at all.. ..It is Titian that bears the banner. As quoted by Hugh Stokes in Francisco Goya , Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p 71”

“Velazquez's remark is to the Italian contemporary painter Salvator Rosa”

“I have had Three Masters”

“I would rather be the first painter of common things than the second in higher art.”

“Nature is the best teacher for any painter.”

“The nobility of painting lies in its ability to capture the truth of the moment.”

“A painter must learn to see, not just to look.”

“Every portrait is a self-portrait of the artist.”

“The greatest art comes from the simplest observations.”

“To paint is to think with the brush.”

“De los dioses son todas las cosas: los sabios son amigos de los dioses, y las cosas de los amigos son comunes; luego todas las cosas son de los sabios”

“El insulto deshonra a quien lo infiere, no a quien lo recibe”

“No comparemos a un mosquito con un elefante”