Frida Kahlo

My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

I am my own muse, the subject I know best.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.

I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.

Painting completed my life.

There is so much wealth and so much misery at the same time, that it seems incredible that people can endure such class difference, and accept such a form of hunger while on the other hand, the millionaires throw away millions on stupidities.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

I love you more than my own skin.

I don't know how to write love letters.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.