I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLOWhat 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.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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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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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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I love you more than my own skin.
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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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Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
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Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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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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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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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 drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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