Frida Kahlo

"I refuse to be defined by my suffering, only by my paintings."

"My art speaks the language that my voice cannot."

"I am the bird that has flown all the oceans, yet always returns home."

"The self-portrait is the most honest conversation I can have."

"I will paint until the pain becomes beautiful."

"My garden grows in impossible soil, yet blooms in defiance."

"I am not sad, I am just painting the truth of what I feel."

"The mirror shows me, but the canvas reveals me."

"I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."

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

"I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."

"Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe where you were expecting to find shirts."

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

"My birth was my first disaster. I was born during the Mexican Revolution."

"I paint my own reality, the only truth I know."

"At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"The little deer stood alone on a island surrounded by water."

"I am a self-portrait in time, always a work in progress."

"My heart is my own, and no one will ever own it."

"Every day of your life has something valuable to teach you."

"I would paint myself but I cannot separate myself from the past that shaped me."

"Beauty is found not in what is perfect, but in what is honestly human."

"To be your own muse is the greatest power you can possess."

"Pain is the price we pay for living. Joy is the reward for surviving."

"I cannot cure myself, but I can paint myself whole."

"My art is the result of everything that has broken me."

"The most real thing about me is my ability to reinvent myself."

"I create objects that touch people, that make them laugh or cry or think."

"Without hope, I would have abandoned myself long ago."