Frida Kahlo1907–1954I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
As quoted in “Mexican Autobiography”, Time (27 April 1953)- Diary illustration, dated 1953, preceding a foot amputation in August of that year; reproduced on page 415 of Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983)
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
As quoted in “Mexican Autobiography”, Time (27 April 1953)





