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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

Frida Kahlo

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
FRIDA KAHLO

Endurance Inspirational Thinking
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
FRIDA KAHLO

Abandonment Laugh Laughter Oneself Ridiculous Strength Tragedy Worth
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO

Agreement Father Mother Teaching
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
FRIDA KAHLO

Away Leaving Night Potrait Presence
I was a child who went about in a world of colors. My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
FRIDA KAHLO

Children Color Companion Friendship Instant Old Slow Women World
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Buy Death Exhibition Failure General People Rich Scare War
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Paint Reality
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
FRIDA KAHLO

Accident Life Worst
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alcohol Learning Sorrow Swim
I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bore Country Face Lack Taste
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Death Express Fear Hero Intense Invention Life People Reason
I paint flowers so they will not die.
FRIDA KAHLO

Deep Die Flower One Liner Paint
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
FRIDA KAHLO

Flood Song Storm Writing
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
FRIDA KAHLO

Muse Positive Subject Want
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
FRIDA KAHLO

Biscuit Look Lover
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
FRIDA KAHLO

Face General Moustache Opposite Sex

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

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