Painting completed my life.
FRIDA KAHLOThey thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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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 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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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 wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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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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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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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.
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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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Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
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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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Everyone’s opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.
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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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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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