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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

Frida Kahlo

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alive Broken Heart Happiness Paint Sick
I don’t know how to write love letters.
FRIDA KAHLO

Letter Love Writing
I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
FRIDA KAHLO

Believe Problem Process Survival Thinking
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 paint flowers so they will not die.
FRIDA KAHLO

Deep Die Flower One Liner Paint
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Beauty Fall In Love Love Open Rain Transformation Want
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alcohol Learning Sorrow Swim
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 want to be inside your darkest everything.
FRIDA KAHLO

Darkness Inside Want
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bastard Decent Feeling Learning Overwhelmed Sorrow Swim Try
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Change Constant Rigid Time
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
FRIDA KAHLO

Canvas Mind Painting
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
FRIDA KAHLO

Muse Positive Subject Want
There is nothing more precious than laughter.
FRIDA KAHLO

Laughter Positive Precious
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
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 drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

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