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

Frida Kahlo

I was a child who went about in a world of colors. My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
FRIDA KAHLO

Children Color Companion Friendship Instant Old Slow Women World
I paint flowers so they will not die.
FRIDA KAHLO

Deep Die Flower One Liner Paint
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
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Artist Carry Message Pain Painting
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
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Alive Broken Heart Happiness Paint Sick
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
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
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 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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People Same Stranger Thinking World
My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
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Blood Heart Miracle Vein
My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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Bicycle Toy
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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Alcohol Learning Sorrow Swim
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
FRIDA KAHLO

Curtain Freedom Madness
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
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
FRIDA KAHLO

Biscuit Look Lover
I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bore Country Face Lack Taste

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

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