Diego Rivera Quotes

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

Diego Rivera

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• A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Church
  • Heaven
  • Never

• You have to be brave when you've got a kid.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Brave
  • Be Brave

• Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Where
  • Fourth

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• I don't do office work at home.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Work
  • Home
  • Office

• If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Education
  • Serious

• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Up
  • Good
  • Woman

• My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.'

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Time
  • World
  • Best

• The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Play
  • Reason
  • Doing

• The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Stock

• Choose again.

  

  Dan Simmons

• In Tarzan's clever little mind many thoughts revolved, and back of these was his divine power of reason. If he could catch his fellow apes with his long arm of many grasses, why not Sabor, the lioness?

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Why

• Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Truth
  • Fear
  • Intelligent

• A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

  

  Dorothy Height
  • Women
  • She

• My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Life
  • Experience

• No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

  

  Max Planck
  • Happy

• Let the fresh fruits and vegetables be your guide, and make something that will keep for the whole week.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson

• Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Up
  • God
  • Star

• I don't ask questions. I just figure the extra warm days are God's way of rewarding me for Garden State

  

  Zach Braff
  • God
  • Way
  • Garden

• I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • History
  • Period

• I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Art
  • Stop

• It can't be pretty without being ugly first.

  

  Kambri Crews
  • Pretty
  • Ugly

• Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

  

  Diego Rivera
  • Art
  • Taste
  • Standards