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”.

During this period Kahlo also witnessed violent armed struggles in the streets of Mexico City as the Mexican Revolution continued. "
Her mother had a special easel made for her so Frida Kahlo could paint in bed and her father lent her his box of oil paints and some bruFrida Kahlos. Kahlo joined a clique at the school and became enamored of the strongest personality of it Alejandro Gómez Arias.

She suffered lifelong health problems. She gave her birth date as July 7 1910 but her birth certificate shows July 6 1907. Her work has also been described as "surrealist" and in 1938 André Breton principal initiator of the surrealist movement described Kahlo's art as a "ribbon around a bomb".