I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLOI leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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 am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
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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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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 paint flowers so they will not die.
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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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You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.
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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
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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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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 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 magic.
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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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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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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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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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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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Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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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 love you more than my own skin.
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