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

I do not believe in God, yet I believe in Picasso.

I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later.

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

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

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.