Jose Clemente Orozco Quotes

• 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 them in the moment of speaking; in having the temerity to proclaim what one believes to be true without fear of the consequences. If one were to await the possession of the absolute truth, one must be either a fool or a mute. If the creative impulse were muted, the world would then be stayed on its march.

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Strong, Fear, Truth

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• Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Art, Emotion, Art Is

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• 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.

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Art, Ideas, Creating

  José Clemente Orozco (1983). “Textos de Orozco: Estudio y Apéndice”

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

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Cities, Raises, Prodigious

  Clemente Orozco V., José Clemente Orozco (2004). “José Clemente Orozco: Graphic Work”, p.5, University of Texas Press

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

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Race, Two, Mixtures

  Jose Clemente Orozco (1962). “José Clemente Orozco: An Autobiography”, p.21, University of Texas Press

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

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Fashion, Iron, Machines

  Clemente Orozco V., José Clemente Orozco (2004). “José Clemente Orozco: Graphic Work”, p.5, University of Texas Press

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

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Knees

  José Clemente Orozco (2014). “José Clemente Orozco: An Autobiography”, p.24, University of Texas Press

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

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Praise, Masters, Produce

  José Clemente Orozco (2014). “José Clemente Orozco: An Autobiography”, p.24, University of Texas Press

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