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

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

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

- Jose Clemente Orozco

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

- Jose Clemente Orozco

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

- Jose Clemente Orozco

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

- Jose Clemente Orozco

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

- Jose Clemente Orozco

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?

- Jose Clemente Orozco