I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
FRIDA KAHLOWhat 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.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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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 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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To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
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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 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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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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I love you more than my own skin.
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There is nothing more precious than laughter.
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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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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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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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I want to be inside your darkest everything.
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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