Kahlo suggested, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best." She also stated, "I was born a bitch. I was born a painter."
“You have your private life I know. But no one’s private life runs smoothly. There are more harmony in films than in life. No traffic jams, no dead periods. Films keep going on you know, like trains in the night. People like you, like me are only happy in our work, making films.”