I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
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 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.
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Painting completed my life.
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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.
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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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 find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
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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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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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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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To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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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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Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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