Frida Kahlo is the most famous Latin American artist of the twentieth century and a key figure in Mexican art. She met Pablo Picasso and André Breton; she was a friend of the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the poet Pablo Neruda. Her house welcomed writers, artists, filmmakers, doctors, politicians, photographers. Diego Rivera, the Mexican muralist recognized and husband of Frida artist, described it thus: "Your genius is in the picture and image. Decidedly no living painter who can do what thou wilt. You've missed the peak all the pintante race. "