Only The Work Of Art Itself Can

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.

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.

My Cubist Paintings Are My Most Mexican.

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.

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 Tuberculars, The Myopic Or The Paralytics; You Cannot Be An Enemy Of The Sick, Only Their Good Friend In Order To Help Them Cure Themselves.