I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLOI paint flowers so they will not die.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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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 put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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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 love you more than my own skin.
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Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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I am not sick. I am broken. But 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 a bourbon biscuit.
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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted 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 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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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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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.
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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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