They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLOI am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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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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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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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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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 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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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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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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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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 am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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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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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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