Painting completed my life.
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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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 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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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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I want to be inside your darkest everything.
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I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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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 hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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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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My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
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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 painting carries with it the message of pain.
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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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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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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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I love you more than my own skin.
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I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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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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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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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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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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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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