I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.