I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLOI 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.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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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.
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I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty – love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.
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The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
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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.
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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.
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People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich – don’t want to buy anything.
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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.
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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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Everyone’s opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.
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