Frida Kahlo

“Feet, what do I need them forIf I have wings to fly.”

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

“I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I love you more than my own skin.”

“Painting completed my life.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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 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 of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.”

“I paint flowers so they will not die.”

“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.”