David Alfaro Siqueiros Quotes
The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
-
You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
-
You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
-
You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
-
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
-
Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
-
I would love to have played Gollum.
-
I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
-
Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?
-
I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
-
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
-
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
-
Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
-
The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
-
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
-
Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
-
I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
-
Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
-
A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
-
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
-
As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human beign, however 'archetypal' his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are masks behind which we see our own faces.
-
Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.
-
The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.
