They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLOThere is nothing more precious than laughter.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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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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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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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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I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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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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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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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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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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My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
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