List of Diego Rivera Quotes

I Do Not Believe In God, Yet I Believe In Picasso.

Through Her Paintings, She Breaks All The Taboos Of The Woman's Body And Of Female Sexuality.

I Am An Atheist And I Consider Religions To Be A Form Of Collective Neurosis. I Am Not An Enemy Of The Catholics, As I Am Not An Enemy Of The Tuberculars, The Myopic Or The Paralytics; You Cannot Be An Enemy Of The Sick, Only Their Good Friend In Order To Help Them Cure Themselves.

I Did Not Know It Then, But Frida Had Already Become The Most Important Fact In My Life. And Would Continue To Be, Up To The Moment She Died, 27 Years Later.

Every Good Composition Is Above All A Work Of Abstraction. All Good Painters Know This. But The Painter Cannot Dispense With Subjects Altogether Without His Work Suffering Impoverishment.

Never Before Had A Woman Put Such Agonizing Poetry On Canvas As Frida Did

My Cubist Paintings Are My Most Mexican.

July 13, 1954 Was The Most Tragic Day Of My Life. I Had Lost My Beloved Frida Forever. To Late Now I Realized That The Most Wonderful Part Of My Life Had Been My Love For Frida.

If I Ever Loved A Woman, The More I Loved Her, The More I Wanted To Hurt Her. Frida Was Only The Most Obvious Victim Of This Disgusting Trait.

The Artist Must Try To Raise The Level Of Taste Of The Masses, Not Debase Himself To The Level Of Unformed And Impoverished Taste.

I've Never Believed In God, But I Believe In Picasso.

Only The Work Of Art Itself Can Raise The Standard Of Taste.