They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLOPain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
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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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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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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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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 am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
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Painting completed my life.
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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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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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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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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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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 am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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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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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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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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To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
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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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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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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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I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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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.
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