I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
FRIDA KAHLOTake a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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 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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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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The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
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I love you more than my own skin.
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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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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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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 hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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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 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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To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
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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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