I paint flowers so they will not die.
FRIDA KAHLOI drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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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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Painting completed my life.
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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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I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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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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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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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.
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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 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 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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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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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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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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