To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
FRIDA KAHLOPassion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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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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I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
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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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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
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Painting completed my life.
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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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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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Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
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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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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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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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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 wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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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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The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
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I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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