Diego Rivera Quotes

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

Diego Rivera

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• The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

  

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• Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.

  

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• You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

  

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• Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

  

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• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

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• In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

  

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• But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

  

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• You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.

  

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• But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

  

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• I always sang when I was little-bitty girl. I sang all the time. And then I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee, so I sang in a show at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. You know, they have all those variety shows where Dollywood is. And I sang there and yodeled and clogged, but I never wrote my own songs.

  

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• As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

  

  Diego Rivera
  • Artist
  • Vision
  • Conflict