At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
FRIDA KAHLOI am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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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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I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
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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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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
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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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There is nothing more precious than laughter.
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I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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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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Painting completed my life.
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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 love you more than my own skin.
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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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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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To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
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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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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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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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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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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 don’t know how to write love letters.
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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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