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 KAHLONothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
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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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There is nothing more precious than laughter.
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I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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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 drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
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I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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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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Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they’re not at all the same. But they’re both symptoms inside the white male power structure.
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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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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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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.
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