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I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.

Frida Kahlo

I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bore Country Face Lack Taste
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Dreams Nightmare Paint Reality
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
FRIDA KAHLO

Canvas Mind Painting
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
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 KAHLO

Children Horrible Life Painting Sorrow Story
I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
FRIDA KAHLO

Hope Joy Leaving Let Go Return
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
FRIDA KAHLO

Face General Moustache Opposite Sex
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Paint Reality
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
FRIDA KAHLO

Away Leaving Night Potrait Presence
My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bicycle Toy
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 KAHLO

Children Color Companion Friendship Instant Old Slow Women World
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
FRIDA KAHLO

Muse Positive Subject Want
My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
FRIDA KAHLO

Blood Heart Miracle Vein
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Core Deep Mountain
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
I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alive Happiness Paint

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