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.
FRIDA KAHLOI hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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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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Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
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Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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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 want to be inside your darkest everything.
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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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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 never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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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 love you more than my own skin.
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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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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 paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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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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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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The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
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Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
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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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There is nothing more precious than laughter.
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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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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
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