They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLOI want to be inside your darkest everything.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
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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 put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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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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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
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There is nothing more precious than laughter.
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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.
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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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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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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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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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