They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLOI paint flowers so they will not die.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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Painting completed my life.
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I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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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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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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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.
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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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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 wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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I love you more than my own skin.
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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 hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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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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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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