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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Frida Kahlo

I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO

Agreement Father Mother Teaching
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Paint Reality
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Death Express Fear Hero Intense Invention Life People Reason
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
FRIDA KAHLO

Away Leaving Night Potrait Presence
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bridge Change Pain Passion
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Dreams Nightmare Paint Reality
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
FRIDA KAHLO

Absolute Change Fly Life Move Revolve Time
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
FRIDA KAHLO

Human Leaving Love
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
FRIDA KAHLO

Abandonment Laugh Laughter Oneself Ridiculous Strength Tragedy Worth
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
FRIDA KAHLO

Muse Positive Subject Want
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Comparison Mal Power Problem Racism Same Sex Structure Symptom
I don’t know how to write love letters.
FRIDA KAHLO

Letter Love Writing
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
FRIDA KAHLO

Biscuit Look Lover
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Core Deep Mountain
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alive Broken Heart Happiness Paint Sick
I love you more than my own skin.
FRIDA KAHLO

Couple I Love You Skin Valentine

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