I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLOTo paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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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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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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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 want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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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 am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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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 am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
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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 put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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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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