Frida Kahlo

"The broken columns of my spine held the temple of my dreams."

"I grow flowers within myself, between my bones."

"My paintings are my diaries, my sorrows made visible."

"I could never think of suicide for three reasons: I was not mad, I was not single, and I was not even broken."

"I admired Marx, Lenin and Gandhi. We all must continue fighting."

"The walls of my world grew narrower, so I painted them."

"I have suffered the same pain as everyone, just painted it differently."

"My hands made this, my heart feels this, my eyes see this."

"I am awake while the world sleeps, painting in the darkness."

"The thorns are the important part of the rose, not the thorns that harm but those that protect."

"I have my own particular pain."

"I will paint myself without shame, without apology."

"The flowers know my name, the earth knows my step."

"I am always my own theme, my own hero, my own villain."

"In my solitude, I created my greatest works."

"I paint the self because it is the subject I know best and understand least."

"My art was not surrealism, it was my reality painted plain."

"Every stroke of my brush is a conversation with myself."

"I have been broken so many times, yet I still bloom."

"The monkeys and I share the same solitude and sadness."

"I paint because painting is breathing for me."

"My beauty and my ugliness are the same mirror."

"I dance alone to music only I can hear."

"The wounds are where the light enters my paintings."

"I am a subject of my own experiments, a willing participant in my transformation."

"My canvas is a window into the woman I was forced to become."

"I have learned to love myself as if I were my own daughter."

"The roots of my art extend deeper than the pain of my body."

"I paint myself because I am always changing and I am always myself."

"Every day is a new canvas, every moment a new color."