Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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 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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The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
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Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
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I love you more than my own skin.
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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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My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
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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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What 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.
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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 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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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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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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