I don’t know how to write love letters.
FRIDA KAHLOMy toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
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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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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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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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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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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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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
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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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I love you more than my own skin.
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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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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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I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
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There is nothing more precious than laughter.
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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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The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
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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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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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To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
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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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I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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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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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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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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