“To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult. It is necessary…to learn the skill very well, to have very strict self-discipline and above all to have love, to feel a great love for painting.”
– Frida Kahlo
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Sources
- “Frida Kahlo by Guillermo Kahlo.” Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frida_Kahlo,_by_Guillermo_Kahlo.jpg
- Tuchman, Phyllis. “Frida Kahlo – The Mexican artist’s myriad faces, stranger-than-fiction biography and powerful paintings come to vivid life in a new film.” Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/frida-kahlo-70745811/
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