They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLOThey thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLOI 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 KAHLOI paint flowers so they will not die.
FRIDA KAHLOI put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
FRIDA KAHLOI am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLOOf the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
FRIDA KAHLOI was a child who went about in a world of colors. My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
FRIDA KAHLOPain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.
FRIDA KAHLOYou deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.
FRIDA KAHLONothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
FRIDA KAHLOTake a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
FRIDA KAHLOI am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLOI drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
FRIDA KAHLOI find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
FRIDA KAHLOI think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
FRIDA KAHLOMy blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
FRIDA KAHLO