“When we began, we had no opportunities; we prepared in silence and created our own opportunity.”

— Diego Rivera

On making your own artistic opportunities in the book Conversations with Diego Rivera: The Monster in His Labyrinth https://books.google.com/books?id=KpZRDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq

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