José Clemente Orozco

“Art is knowledge at the service of emotion.”

“Without the imaginative distortion of the real, there is no art.”

“A painting is a poem and not a sociological thesis.”

“If there were no Mona Lisa, we would not be here. We would not be who we are.”

“The highest, most logical, purest, and most powerful type of painting is mural painting.”

“To be an artist is to believe in life.”

“The creative process is not performed by the skilled hand, but by the seeing eye.”

“Every painter is a propagandist. Otherwise, he would not be a painter.”

“Form and color in themselves are not the aim of the artist, but the means of expressing a thought.”

“Let the artists of America be universal.”

“Far from being an end in itself, painting is a means of expression.”

“In the very act of trying to be an artist, one becomes one.”

“The artist's work is not a refuge from life, but the other way around.”

“The world is full of spectators. We are all spectators.”