Frida Kahlo

"The world needs my authentic voice more than a pretty lie."

"I paint to understand why I survive when I want to surrender."

"My imperfections are my signature."

"I believe love is stronger than all the forces that tear us apart."

"To live is to create, and to create is to truly live."

"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."

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

"I paint flowers so they will not die."

"My paint brush goes on strike, refuses to obey my will."

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

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

"I like myself, I am crazy, I am wild, and I am free."

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

"I dress myself and paint myself because I am the subject I know best."

"God, I love myself, I am my own muse."

"The pain of childbirth was nothing to the spiritual agony I had to endure."

"Each day I am my heart's vessel of flowers and pain."

"I have suffered the same pain, the same helplessness and finally the same failure that everyone has known."

"My eyebrows are like the wings of a blackbird that wanted to fly."

"I never thought of myself as important. I was just Frida."

"I created myself anew as I went along, like Michelangelo."

"The only thing I know is that I paint and I don't know why."

"I am the cause of all my problems and my own solution."

"I've been my own phenomenon for too many years."

"My birth was my first catastrophe."

"I am my own theme. The most important thing is that I never repeat myself."

"My heart is broken but I am still alive."

"Painting gives me great pleasure, almost like being alive."