Painting completed my life.
FRIDA KAHLOI never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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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.
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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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Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
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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.
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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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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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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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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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There is nothing more precious than laughter.
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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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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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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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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.
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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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Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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I love you more than my own skin.
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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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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 drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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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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I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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