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 KAHLOI do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
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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 want to be inside your darkest everything.
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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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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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.
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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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I love you more than my own skin.
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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 never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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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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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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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
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Painting completed my life.
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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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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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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
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