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 KAHLOYou 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.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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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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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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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.
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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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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 toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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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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My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
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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 am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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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 was a child who went about in a world of colors. My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
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