Frida Kahlo

"I have nothing to hide. Everything that I could possibly hide is within my paintings."

"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned to swim."

"The butterfly and I were not separated on earth."

"I am my own guardian angel."

"If my heart could do my thinking, would my head have anything to say?"

"I will be my own art."

"I belong to myself, I am my own mistress."

"The sadness will last forever but I will paint it."

"I paint and paint to fill the void inside."

"My paintings are the most honest autobiography."

"I used to think I was the strangest person but over time I've realized there are many others."

"I will paint you a new heart."

"Without you, I can no longer paint my own story."

"I am awake in a world I do not understand."

"My art is the rearrangement of the reality which I prefer."

"I dissolve, I disappear, I die in every moment that I look at you."

"The only surrealism is the one that explodes in my breast."

"I cannot tell you how I feel because it would take all of my paintings."

"I have never painted dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality, which is the only truth I really know."

"I do not believe in death, neither as a concept nor as a reality. It seems to me a poor form of imagination."

"I am a free woman, a free spirit."

"Passion is the bridge between pain and ecstasy."

"I will paint myself until I understand who I am."

"My art is the fruit of movement and of thought."

"I loved you once with all my flowers and thorns."

"The ribbon in your hair is beautiful, but I cannot wear it."

"I paint flowers so that they will not die, beauty so it will persist."

"I am swimming in a sea of my own creation."

"Water is the mirror of my face, and I drink from my own image."

"I paint myself because I know myself well."