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 tubercu….

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..

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life….

I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and h….

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether with….

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

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

Art is like ham-it nourishes people..

If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait..

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 year….

The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution..

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not wh….

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

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

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

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste..

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

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn't capa….

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….

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican..