„I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.“

— Frida Kahlo

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„Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in my painting, but what I cannot do without, unwell as I am, is something greater than myself, which is my life, the power to create.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.“
— Frida Kahlo
„.. How I paint I do not know myself. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me, I look at what is before me, I say to myself that white board must become something, I come back dissatisfied - I put it away, and when I have rested a little I go to look at it with a kind of fear. Then I am still dissatisfied, because I have still too closely in my mind that splendid nature..“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.“
— Frida Kahlo