They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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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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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.
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I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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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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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
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