They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLOMy painting carries with it the message of pain.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
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Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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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 wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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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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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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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
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