Frida Kahlo — "I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I kn…"

"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 penetrate the sex of the whole earth, her heat chars me and my entire body is rubbed by the freshness of the tender leaves."

"My body is filled with you for days and days. you are the mirror of the night. the violent flash of lightning. the dampness of the earth. The hollow of your armpits is my shelter. my fingers touch you…"

"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 think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive."