They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLOTake a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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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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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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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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I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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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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The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
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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 want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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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 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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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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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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