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To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

Frida Kahlo

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Paint Reality
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Core Deep Mountain
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
FRIDA KAHLO

Flood Song Storm Writing
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
FRIDA KAHLO

Destiny Destroy Earth Mankind
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
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
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Paint Reality
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
Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.
FRIDA KAHLO

Death Existence Intelligence Open Pain Pleasure Process Revolution Struggle
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
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
FRIDA KAHLO

Human Leaving Love
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Dreams Nightmare Paint Reality
The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
FRIDA KAHLO

Body Brain Eyebrows Eyes Face Important
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
Painting completed my life.
FRIDA KAHLO

Complete Life Painting
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
I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alive Happiness Paint
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Artist Carry Message Pain Painting
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
FRIDA KAHLO

Feet Fly Inspirational Wings
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alcohol Learning Sorrow Swim
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bridge Change Pain Passion
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Buy Death Exhibition Failure General People Rich Scare War
I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
FRIDA KAHLO

Expression Frank Myself Painting
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
I don’t know how to write love letters.
FRIDA KAHLO

Letter Love Writing
You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.
FRIDA KAHLO

Count Deserve Encouragement Honesty People
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
FRIDA KAHLO

Face General Moustache Opposite Sex

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