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Diego Rivera Quotes

Let’s celebrate together Diego Riviera’s birthday, trying to share best Diego Riviera Quotes.

“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.”

“Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman’s body and of female sexuality.” (talking of his wife Frida Kahlo)

Diego Rivera Quotes“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.”

“I’ve never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.”

Alexander Calder Quotes

Today we celebrate Alexander Calder’s Birthday in our own way, sharing Alexander Calder Quotes. Please enjoy and choose your favorite :)

I paint with shapes. – Alexander Calder Quotes

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six. – Alexander Calder Quotes

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect. – Alexander Calder Quotes

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition. – Alexander Calder Quotes

alexander calder quotesFrom the beginning of my abstract work, even when it might not have seemed so, I felt there was no better model for me to choose than the Universe – Alexander Calder Quotes

When an artist explains what he is doing he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his subsequent work fit in with the explanation. – Alexander Calder Quotes

A knowledge of and sympathy with the qualities of the materials used are essential to proper treatment. – Alexander Calder Quotes

Each element can move, shift or sway back & forth in a changing relation to each of the other elements in the universe. Thus, they reveal not only isolated moments, but a physical law or variation among the elements of life. Not extractions, but abstractions. Abstractions which resemble no living things except by their manner of reacting. – Alexander Calder Quotes

With a mechanical drive you can control the thing like the choreography in a ballet and superimpose various movements.. a great number, even, by means of cams and other mechanical devices. – Alexander Calder Quotes

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. – Alexander Calder Quotes