"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you."
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"I paint flowers so they will not die."
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"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"
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"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."
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"You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”"
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"pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence"
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"There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst."
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"I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive."
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"Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain."
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"I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living."
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"Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself."
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"Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts."
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"I love you more than my own skin."
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"It's not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture. So at the emerging level, you can't have a good survey art show without women and artists of color."
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"The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody."
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"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."
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"My painting carries with it the message of pain."
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"I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls."
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"To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside."
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"Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light."
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