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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.

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

Dreams Nightmare Paint Reality
My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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Bicycle Toy
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
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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Buy Death Exhibition Failure General People Rich Scare War
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

People Same Stranger Thinking World
I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
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Bore Country Face Lack Taste
I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
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Believe Problem Process Survival Thinking
I love you more than my own skin.
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Couple I Love You Skin Valentine
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
FRIDA KAHLO

Look Love Lover Magic
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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Feet Fly Inspirational Wings
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
FRIDA KAHLO

Flood Song Storm Writing
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
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Alive Broken Heart Happiness Paint Sick
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Artist Carry Message Pain Painting
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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Beauty Fall In Love Love Open Rain Transformation Want
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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Canvas Mind Painting
I paint flowers so they will not die.
FRIDA KAHLO

Deep Die Flower One Liner Paint
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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Accident Life Worst
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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Expression Frank Myself Painting
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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Death Express Fear Hero Intense Invention Life People Reason
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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Children Color Companion Friendship Instant Old Slow Women World
To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
FRIDA KAHLO

Difficult Paint Terrific
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Comparison Mal Power Problem Racism Same Sex Structure Symptom
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
FRIDA KAHLO

Biscuit Look Lover
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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Core Deep Mountain
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
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
FRIDA KAHLO

Endurance Inspirational Thinking

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