Frida Kahlo is a well-known Latin American artist. Her art has captivated audiences across the world and inspired many other artists with her unique style and perspective on her culture and life. Though she is well-known for her flower crown and unibrow, she was much more than just a style icon. In honor of Frida's 110th birthday here are 20 quotes to remind us of who the famous painter once was

1. "I was born a bitch. I was born a painter."

2. "Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"

3. "I paint flowers so they will not die."

4. "I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."

6. "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."

7. "They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."

8. "I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim."

9. "I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint."

10. "I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive."

11. "At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can."

12. "Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light."

13. "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."

14. "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."

15. "I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you."

16. "Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself."

17. "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."

18. "You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts."

19. "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."

20. "Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away."