My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.