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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

Frida Kahlo

I was a child who went about in a world of colors. My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
FRIDA KAHLO

Children Color Companion Friendship Instant Old Slow Women World
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
FRIDA KAHLO

Endurance Inspirational Thinking
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
FRIDA KAHLO

Look Love Lover Magic
To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
FRIDA KAHLO

Difficult Paint Terrific
I don’t know how to write love letters.
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Letter Love Writing
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Artist Carry Message Pain Painting
I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
FRIDA KAHLO

Hope Joy Leaving Let Go Return
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
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
FRIDA KAHLO

Abandonment Laugh Laughter Oneself Ridiculous Strength Tragedy Worth
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
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Absolute Change Fly Life Move Revolve Time
Painting completed my life.
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Complete Life Painting
The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
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Body Brain Eyebrows Eyes Face Important
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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Curtain Freedom Madness
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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Face General Moustache Opposite Sex
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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Death Existence Intelligence Open Pain Pleasure Process Revolution Struggle
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Paint Reality
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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Accident Life Worst
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 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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People Same Stranger Thinking World
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 am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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Alive Happiness Paint
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 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
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 never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Dreams Nightmare Paint Reality
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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Core Deep Mountain
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bridge Change Pain Passion

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