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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

My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bicycle Toy
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

People Same Stranger Thinking World
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
FRIDA KAHLO

Absolute Change Fly Life Move Revolve Time
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Core Deep Mountain
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
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
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
FRIDA KAHLO

Feet Fly Inspirational Wings
I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
FRIDA KAHLO

Hope Joy Leaving Let Go Return
The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
FRIDA KAHLO

Body Brain Eyebrows Eyes Face Important
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
FRIDA KAHLO

Endurance Inspirational Thinking
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
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
FRIDA KAHLO

Human Leaving Love
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO

Agreement Father Mother Teaching
Painting completed my life.
FRIDA KAHLO

Complete Life Painting
My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
FRIDA KAHLO

Blood Heart Miracle Vein
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.

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