To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
FRIDA KAHLOSexism 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.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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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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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
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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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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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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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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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I want to be inside your darkest everything.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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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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