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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Frida Kahlo

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
FRIDA KAHLO

Away Leaving Night Potrait Presence
Painting completed my life.
FRIDA KAHLO

Complete Life Painting
I don’t know how to write love letters.
FRIDA KAHLO

Letter Love Writing
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alone Paint Person Portrait Self Love
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Death Express Fear Hero Intense Invention Life People Reason
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bastard Decent Feeling Learning Overwhelmed Sorrow Swim Try
I want to be inside your darkest everything.
FRIDA KAHLO

Darkness Inside Want
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO

Agreement Father Mother Teaching
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Beauty Fall In Love Love Open Rain Transformation Want
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
FRIDA KAHLO

Canvas Mind Painting
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Artist Carry Message Pain Painting
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Core Deep Mountain
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 KAHLO

Children Horrible Life Painting Sorrow Story
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Paint Reality
I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
FRIDA KAHLO

Believe Problem Process Survival Thinking
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
FRIDA KAHLO

Accident Life Worst

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

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