In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the plastic construction, and it is always present all the time as energy creating matter. The stories and other literary associations exist only in the mind of the spectator, the painting acting as the stimulus.
Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels t… - Jose Clemente Orozco
Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels t…
- Jose Clemente Orozco
In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the pl… - Jose Clemente Orozco
In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the pl…
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe. - Jose Clemente Orozco
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion. - Jose Clemente Orozco
Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo. - Jose Clemente Orozco
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos? - Jose Clemente Orozco
Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?
Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang? - Jose Clemente Orozco
Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?
We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. - Jose Clemente Orozco
We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.
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