Diego Rivera Quotes

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.

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.

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.

I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.