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

Frida Kahlo

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
FRIDA KAHLO

Human Leaving Love
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
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Core Deep Mountain
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 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 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
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Buy Death Exhibition Failure General People Rich Scare War
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
FRIDA KAHLO

Destiny Destroy Earth Mankind
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Death Express Fear Hero Intense Invention Life People Reason
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Paint Reality
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
FRIDA KAHLO

Biscuit Look Lover
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Artist Carry Message Pain Painting
I paint flowers so they will not die.
FRIDA KAHLO

Deep Die Flower One Liner Paint
To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
FRIDA KAHLO

Difficult Paint Terrific
The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
FRIDA KAHLO

Body Brain Eyebrows Eyes Face Important
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
FRIDA KAHLO

Look Love Lover Magic

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

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