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 KAHLOOnly one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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 is nothing more precious than laughter.
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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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I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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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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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
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I was a child who went about in a world of colors. My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
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I want to be inside your darkest everything.
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I 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.
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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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.
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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