"Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself."

-- Frida Kahlo

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“I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.”
“The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended.”
“I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became disabled; that's how I came into disability, in a sense.”
“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
“A man who lies about beer makes enemies.”
“Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.”
“Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.”
“Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.”

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