I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
FRIDA KAHLOTake a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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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 think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
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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 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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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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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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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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I want to be inside your darkest everything.
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Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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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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