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 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 am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
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I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
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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.
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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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Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they’re not at all the same. But they’re both symptoms inside the white male power structure.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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I want to be inside your darkest everything.
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I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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