“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
“Leaving is not enough. You must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change the locks even on the house he's never visited. You lucky, lucky girl. You have an apartment just your size. A bathtub full of tea. A heart the size of Arizona, but not nearly so arid. Don't wish away your cracked past, your crooked toes, your problems are papier mache puppets you made or bought because the vendor at the market was so compelling you just had to have them. You had to have him. And you did. And now you pull down the bridge between your houses, you make him call before he visits, you take a lover for granted, you take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic. Make the first bottle you consume in this place a relic. Place it on whatever altar you fashion with a knife and five cranberries. Don't lose too much weight. Stupid girls are always trying to disappear as revenge. And you are not stupid. 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.”
“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.”
“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”
“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
“I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
“They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.”
“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
“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.”
“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
“I hope the end is joyful, and I hope never to return.”
“I love you more than my own skin and even though you don't love me the same way, you love me anyways, don't you? And if you don't, I'll always have the hope that you do, and i'm satisfied with that. Love me a little. I adore you.”
“My painting carries with it the message of pain.”
“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
“pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence”
“No moon, sun, diamond, hands —
fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea.
mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.”
“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I'd arrange flowers, all day long, I'd paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she's crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else's - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.”
“People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything"
“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the train the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”
“There is nothing more precious than laughter”
“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.”
“I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.”
I want to be inside your darkest everything"