I recommend her to you, not as a husband but as an enthusiastic admirer of her work, acid and tender, hard as steel and delicate and fine as a butterfly’s wing, lovable as a beautiful smile, and as profound and cruel as the bitterness of life.

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman’s body and of female sexuality.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did.

I’ve never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

What do you mean the banks of the river?. Are/ you the banks of Diego Rivera? I will be/ remembered throughout history and already my/ little Frida has forgotten.... Who first put a/ paint brush in your hand? ... And now you/ have become the banks to contain me? No,/ Frida, you have forgotten the real truth. You/ are a stone in the mighty river. A lovely/ speckled stone.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did at this time in Detroit.

All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn't capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won't put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn't a great artist.