I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
FRIDA KAHLOI think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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 don’t know how to write love letters.
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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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 paint flowers so they will not die.
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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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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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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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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
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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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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 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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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint 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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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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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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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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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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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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