I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
FRIDA KAHLOOnly one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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 never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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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 put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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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 wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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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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I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty – love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.
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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. 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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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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I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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There is nothing more precious than laughter.
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