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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Frida Kahlo

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 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
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
Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.
FRIDA KAHLO

Death Existence Intelligence Open Pain Pleasure Process Revolution Struggle
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Paint Reality
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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Children Color Companion Friendship Instant Old Slow Women World
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
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
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
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
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Core Deep Mountain
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Count Deserve Encouragement Honesty People
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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Agreement Father Mother Teaching
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
I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
FRIDA KAHLO

Believe Problem Process Survival Thinking
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bridge Change Pain Passion

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

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