They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLOPassion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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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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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 love you more than my own skin.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
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I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
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