"I returned to school [after the bus accident], but I felt very sore and had little strength. I took my paintings to Diego [Rivera], and he liked them a lot, most of all the self-portrait. But of the rest he told me that I was influenced by Doctor Atl [a Mexican painter and revolutionary] and by Montenegro, and that I should try to paint whatever I wanted without being influenced by anyone else. That impressed me a lot, and I began to paint that I believed in. Then the friendship and almost courtship with Diego began. I would go to see him paint in the afternoon, and afterwards he would take me home by bus or in a Fordcito â a little Ford that he had â and he would kiss me. (1950)"
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In: Chapter 'My Painting', p. 74
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Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo (6 July 1907 â 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter. She was married to cubist painter Diego Rivera.
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