They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLOAt the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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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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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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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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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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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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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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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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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
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