Frida Kahlo

My parents were both wonderful people, but they were not happy together. My mother was very religious, and my father was an atheist. It was a very strange combination.

I adored him, but he was a fat, old toad.

I want to be useful. I want to build. I want to be part of something.

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

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

There is nothing more precious than laughter.

I've been in and out of hospitals for years. I don't know what I would do without my art.

I want to be with you, start to finish.

I am a communist. I am not ashamed of it.

The only good thing in life is to be able to paint.

Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.

I am not afraid of death because I have already died many times.

I want to be useful, to add something to the world, to be happy.

To be alone is to be able to live with yourself.

I want to be able to paint as much as I want, and also to be able to be with Diego.

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

There are some people who are so much a part of your life that you just can't imagine living without them.

My greatest wish is to give you a painting that expresses my love for you.

I paint reality, not dreams.

I desire to live and to fight, to work and to love, to be able to give the best of myself to the struggle for freedom.