I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
FRIDA KAHLOI paint flowers so they will not die.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
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I want to be inside your darkest everything.
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My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
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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.
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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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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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There is nothing more precious than laughter.
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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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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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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 a bourbon biscuit.
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I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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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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To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
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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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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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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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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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I love you more than my own skin.
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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