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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

Frida Kahlo

Sexism 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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Comparison Mal Power Problem Racism Same Sex Structure Symptom
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

People Same Stranger Thinking World
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
FRIDA KAHLO

Canvas Mind Painting
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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Core Deep Mountain
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alone Paint Person Portrait Self Love
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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Expression Frank Myself Painting
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
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Destiny Destroy Earth Mankind
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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Buy Death Exhibition Failure General People Rich Scare War
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
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Accident Life Worst
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Paint Reality
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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Death Express Fear Hero Intense Invention Life People Reason
I love you more than my own skin.
FRIDA KAHLO

Couple I Love You Skin Valentine
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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Look Love Lover Magic
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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Bore Country Face Lack Taste
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 KAHLO

Children Horrible Life Painting Sorrow Story
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
FRIDA KAHLO

Curtain Freedom Madness

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