I paint flowers so they will not die.
FRIDA KAHLOI put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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Painting completed my life.
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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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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.
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To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
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Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.
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I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
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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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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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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 am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
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