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• I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.
• To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
• Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
• July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I…
• Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.
• I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to…
• Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects…
• I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the…
• As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict…
• Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from…
• I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is…
• An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels,…

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