I Paint Flowers So They Will Not

I Paint Self-portraits Because I Am So Often Alone, Because I Am The Person I Know Best.

The Only Thing I Know Is That I Paint Because I Need To, And I Paint Whatever Passes Through My Head Without Any Other Consideration.

Take A Lover Who Looks At You Like Maybe You Are A Bourbon Biscuit.

I Never Knew I Was A Surrealist Till Andre Breton Came To Mexico And Told Me I Was.

Since My Subjects Have Always Been My Sensations, My States Of Mind And The Profound Reactions That Life Has Been Producing In Me, I Have Frequently Objectified All This In Figures Of Myself, Which Were The Most Sincere And Real Thing That I Could Do In Order To Express What I Felt Inside And Outside Of Myself.