I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLOPainting 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.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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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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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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There is nothing more precious than laughter.
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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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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 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.
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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
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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.
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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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