“ I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling. Frida Kahlo
“ What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death. Frida Kahlo
“ The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody. Frida Kahlo
“ They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. Frida Kahlo
“ There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst. Frida Kahlo
“ I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants. Frida Kahlo
“ I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. Frida Kahlo
“ The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it’s like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid. Frida Kahlo
“ I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity… Frida Kahlo
“ You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress of fabrics, the color of colors, the wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells… Frida Kahlo
