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I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

Frida Kahlo

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
FRIDA KAHLO

Flood Song Storm Writing
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Dreams Nightmare Paint Reality
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 KAHLO

Buy Death Exhibition Failure General People Rich Scare War
My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bicycle Toy
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
FRIDA KAHLO

Abandonment Laugh Laughter Oneself Ridiculous Strength Tragedy Worth
I love you more than my own skin.
FRIDA KAHLO

Couple I Love You Skin Valentine
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
FRIDA KAHLO

Human Leaving Love
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 put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
FRIDA KAHLO

Canvas Mind Painting
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 KAHLO

Children Color Companion Friendship Instant Old Slow Women World
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
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
FRIDA KAHLO

Look Love Lover Magic
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO

Agreement Father Mother Teaching
I paint flowers so they will not die.
FRIDA KAHLO

Deep Die Flower One Liner Paint
My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
FRIDA KAHLO

Blood Heart Miracle Vein
I want to be inside your darkest everything.
FRIDA KAHLO

Darkness Inside Want
I don’t know how to write love letters.
FRIDA KAHLO

Letter Love Writing
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
FRIDA KAHLO

People Same Stranger Thinking World
I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
FRIDA KAHLO

Hope Joy Leaving Let Go Return
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
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
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
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

Accident Life Worst
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 KAHLO

Death Existence Intelligence Open Pain Pleasure Process Revolution Struggle
To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
FRIDA KAHLO

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

Paint Reality
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alcohol Learning Sorrow Swim

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