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There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Frida 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 KAHLO

Count Deserve Encouragement Honesty People
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO

Agreement Father Mother Teaching
I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
FRIDA KAHLO

Expression Frank Myself Painting
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Beauty Fall In Love Love Open Rain Transformation Want
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
FRIDA KAHLO

Away Leaving Night Potrait Presence
I don’t know how to write love letters.
FRIDA KAHLO

Letter Love Writing
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Dreams Nightmare Paint Reality
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
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Destiny Destroy Earth Mankind
I was a child who went about in a world of colors. My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
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Children Color Companion Friendship Instant Old Slow Women World
Painting completed my life.
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Complete Life Painting
I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
FRIDA KAHLO

Hope Joy Leaving Let Go Return
To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
FRIDA KAHLO

Difficult Paint Terrific
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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Bore Country Face Lack Taste
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
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Bastard Decent Feeling Learning Overwhelmed Sorrow Swim Try
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
FRIDA KAHLO

Muse Positive Subject Want
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 KAHLO

Children Horrible Life Painting Sorrow Story
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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Bridge Change Pain Passion
I paint flowers so they will not die.
FRIDA KAHLO

Deep Die Flower One Liner Paint
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Change Constant Rigid Time
My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bicycle Toy
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Paint Reality
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Comparison Mal Power Problem Racism Same Sex Structure Symptom
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alive Broken Heart Happiness Paint Sick
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Death Express Fear Hero Intense Invention Life People Reason
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
FRIDA KAHLO

Flood Song Storm Writing
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Core Deep Mountain
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Paint Reality

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

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