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Jose Clemente Orozco Quotes

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

Jose Clemente Orozco
Art, Emotion, Art Is

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

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”

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

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

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

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

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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