Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

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

Art is like ham-it nourishes people.

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.

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

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