There is a living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate".
Theirs was neither a happy marriage nor or an easy collaboration, and yet her love for the Marxist muralist is clearly an important part of the tapestry of pain and desire that makes Kahlo's art so intense and real and personal.
An enormous new tapestry by Grayson Perry, depicting the fictional couple Julie and Rob for whom he recently designed a house in Essex, will set a buyer back £69,600, while Gary Hume's painting The Blue Ground is priced at £138,000, and the five Gormley sculptures are £174,000 each.
Weaving a new tapestry will require a different pattern and "that will take decades".
Perhaps something is changing in Scotland's distinctive religious tapestry, but not the propensity for a scrap.
Henry IV revived the tapestry scheme in 1601 when his wife, Maria, gave birth to a long-wanted son and heir, the future Louis XIII.
The exhibition is the first at Dovecot Studios, Britain's principal tapestry studio, now newly installed in a resplendent renovated swimming baths on the south side of the Scottish capital.
They bicker, miscommunicate, fall in love and perform operations against a tapestry of cross-cultural desire, political change and colourful symptomatology at the sweetly named Missing Hospital on the edge of Addis Ababa.
So too was the Cloisters' most famous artwork and his most treasured possession, a seven-panel tapestry from around 1500, "The Hunt of the Unicorn".Some 40 fantastical objects take the visitor on a tour of Christian and Jewish, Western and Eastern, Medieval and Renaissance conceptions of the unicorn.
Three of the tapestries were in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Renaissance tapestry show in 2002.
Visitors to the fair can stroll over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see "Tapestry in the Baroque" which opens on October 23rd.
