Frida Kahlo Quotes - Page 2

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

  Frida Kahlo

  Love, Art, Happy Friday

  Hayden Herrera, Frida Kahlo (1992). “Frida Kahlo”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.

  Frida Kahlo

  World, Throat, Whole

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• The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

  Frida Kahlo

  Artist, Feminist Art, Needs

  Christina Burrus, Frida Kahlo (2008). “Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint My Reality'”

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• Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

  Frida Kahlo

  Art, Lions, Surprise

  Frida Kahlo, Carlos Fuentes (2008). “Frida Kahlo: National Homage 1907-2007”, Editorial Rm Rio Panuko

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• 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.

  Frida Kahlo

  Ambition, Important, Important Things

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• To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

  Frida Kahlo

  Self, Risk, Suffering

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• My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.

  Frida Kahlo

  Heart, Blood, Air

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

  Frida Kahlo

  Love, Art, Happy Friday

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• Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

  Frida Kahlo

  Mountain, Knows, Core

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• There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

  Frida Kahlo

  Love, Happy Friday, Two

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• My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.

  Frida Kahlo

  Children, Pain, Thinking

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• pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence

  Frida Kahlo

  Pain, Struggle, Doorways

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• It's not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture. So at the emerging level, you can't have a good survey art show without women and artists of color.

  Frida Kahlo

  Art, Color, Voice

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

  Frida Kahlo

  Love, Drinking, Happy Friday

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• They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

  Frida Kahlo

  Dream, Reality, Portraits

  Frida Kahlo (1978). “Frida Kahlo, 1910-1954: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago”

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• I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.

  Frida Kahlo

  Faces, Boring

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• 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.

  Frida Kahlo

  Real, Fighting, Littles

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• To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves.

  Frida Kahlo

  Stars, Knowing, Bird

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• My painting carries with it the message of pain.

  Frida Kahlo

  Pain, Happy Friday, Artist

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• I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

  Frida Kahlo

  Flower, Dying, Paint

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• You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”

  Frida Kahlo

  Strong, Heart, Men

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• Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

  Frida Kahlo

  Real, Order, Profound

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• I love you more than my own skin.

  Frida Kahlo

  I Love You, Happy Friday, Skins

  Frida Kahlo (1995). “The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

  Frida Kahlo

  Art, Work, Satisfaction

  Frida Kahlo (1995). “The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.

  Frida Kahlo

  Mother, Eye, Moon

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