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Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

Frida Kahlo

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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Death Express Fear Hero Intense Invention Life People Reason
I love you more than my own skin.
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Couple I Love You Skin Valentine
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.
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Children Horrible Life Painting Sorrow Story
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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Comparison Mal Power Problem Racism Same Sex Structure Symptom
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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Dreams Nightmare Paint Reality
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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Change Constant Rigid Time
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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Away Leaving Night Potrait Presence
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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Paint Reality
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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Bridge Change Pain Passion
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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Alone Paint Person Portrait Self Love
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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Face General Moustache Opposite Sex
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
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Muse Positive Subject Want
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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Agreement Father Mother Teaching
My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
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Blood Heart Miracle Vein
I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
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Believe Problem Process Survival Thinking
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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Flood Song Storm Writing

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