The Artist Must Try To Raise The

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.

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 Has A Trunk, Leaves, Blossoms, Boughs, Fruit, And Roots Of Its Own. The More Native Art Is, The More It Belongs To The Entire World, Because Taste Is Rooted In Nature. When Art Is True, It Is One With Nature. This Is The Secret Of Primitive Art And Also Of The Art Of The Mastersmichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, And Renoir. The Secret Of My Best Work Is That It Is Mexican.

Through Her Paintings, She Breaks All The Taboos Of The Woman's Body And Of Female Sexuality.

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.

Never Before Had A Woman Put Such Agonizing Poetry On Canvas As Frida Did