Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Rufino Tamayo

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Rufino Tamayo

Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences.

Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience. — © Rufino Tamayo
Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.
Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.
Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.
Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths—as many paths as there are artists.
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