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My art, my life: an autobiography

This book is an introspective look into the personal experiences and creative endeavors of the author, chronicling their growth and evolution as an artist and individual. more

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Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter renowned for his murals. His works often carry strong socialist and political themes, profoundly influencing Mexican art. more

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“In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.”

“I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art.”

“When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.”