Diego Rivera Quotes

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

Diego Rivera

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• I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Want
  • Like
  • Painting

• I will keep painting until I die.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Die
  • Painting
  • Will

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Culture
  • Me
  • English

• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Problems
  • Immigration
  • Now

• Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • Paint
  • Before

• I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • High
  • Trump
  • Mexican

• Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Together
  • Future
  • Faith

• I've done about 15 movies and four television series in Mexico. My last two movies were the highest grossing in Mexican-cinema history - 'Nosotros los Nobles' and 'Instructions Not Included.'

  

  Karla Souza
  • Done
  • History
  • Movies

• Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• I always tell people, 'Coming from such a big Mexican family when there's a new baby every three weeks, you have to do something to get someone's attention.'

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Family
  • Attention

• Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Living
  • Texas
  • Mexican

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

  

  M. Ward
  • Up
  • Great
  • Food

• 90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Serious

• I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.

  

  Bob Gunton
  • Trying
  • Enemy
  • Walking

• When I first started tweeting, I was just doing it because I was watching 'Breaking Bad' in my trailer and I was so scared by the assassinating cousins. And when people started responding to me, I realized it was like I wasn't watching it alone.

  

  Retta
  • People
  • Watching
  • Realized

• When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses itself in the enjoyment of the reality.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • High
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

  

  Diego Rivera
  • Painting
  • Mexican