Siqueiros Artist Quotes

#1. It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Free enterprise is a natural result of the American form of government, which says in so many words that the more men do for themselves, the less government does for them, the better off we will all be.

Felix Morley

#3. Yet if all reality is subjective, all certitude is impossible.

Robin Paul Wood

#4. For what might happen if we lift
the codicils on belching?
If sex were permitted in the shopping malls? If people
were allowed to sing arias
from Don Giovanni, loudly and out of tune, waiting in line
at Department of Motor Vehicles?

Lucia Perillo

#5. The land is all too shallow
It is painted on the sky
And trembles like the wind-shook rain
When the Raven King passed by

Susanna Clarke

#6. A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Emile M. Cioran

#7. My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.

Tracy Chevalier

#8. The artist must paint as he would speak. I don't want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

David Alfaro Siqueiros

#9. New Haven smelled of neglect. Baltimore smelled of brine, and Brooklyn of sun-warmed garbage.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie