I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
FRIDA KAHLO
FRIDA KAHLO
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo 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 KahloFrida Kahlo I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo 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 KahloFrida Kahlo You 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 KahloFrida Kahlo There is nothing more precious than laughter.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo I don’t know how to write love letters.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo 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.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo I love you more than my own skin.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo Painting completed my life.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo
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From our community writers
My heart keeps room for you always even when you can’t be here.
Holly DuxburyHolly Duxbury You are seeing humanity at its worst and best. A collision of the circumstance.
Samantha King HolmesSamantha King Holmes Treat her like a dream. Follow her, pursue her, and always remind her that you’ll never give up on her.
Jenny AJenny A I care but I’m done trying. I love but I’m done showing.
Divya khandalDivya khandal Never feel defined by your size, measures, and beauty standards.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson The wild is always changing like a reminder. You do not have to be the same to be beautiful.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura Bees and butterflies in my belly with you on my mind they chase each other around.
Jenny WinbladhJenny Winbladh I long for you but you long for someone else, I deny the one who wants me cause I want someone else.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur
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More on canvas
The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle, this is the arena, this is where the fight is taking place, the battle.
Aaron SiskindAaron Siskind I advance all of my canvas at one time.
Paul CezannePaul Cezanne There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.
Gustav KlimtGustav Klimt I advance all of my canvas at one time.
Paul CezannePaul Cezanne The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.
Louise HayLouise Hay I am a canvas, that I design with colors of identity to madness filled masterpiece of worthiness.
Dr. Zainab AnsariDr. Zainab Ansari An artist paints so much than his canvas.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays A blank canvas is still better than a ruined painting.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur