"I was really ugly [circa 8 a 10 years old] and had an admiration complex for Christi [her beautiful sister]. They sen…"

"A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and…"

"I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human."

"I'll be in Detroit two more weeks. I would like to tell you every thing that happened to me since the last time we sa…"

"I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim."

"Until always and forever. Now in 1944. After all the hours lived through. The vectors continue in their original dire…"

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."

"I am a poor little deer."

"His [Diego Rivera's] supposed mythomania is in direct relation to his tremendous imagination. That is to say, he is a…"

"If I were a painter, I'd be Frida Kahlo."