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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

Frida Kahlo

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Dreams Nightmare Paint Reality
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
FRIDA KAHLO

Feet Fly Inspirational Wings
My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bicycle Toy
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alcohol Learning Sorrow Swim
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
FRIDA KAHLO

Human Leaving Love
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
FRIDA KAHLO

Endurance Inspirational Thinking
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
FRIDA KAHLO

Absolute Change Fly Life Move Revolve Time
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
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Paint Reality
I paint flowers so they will not die.
FRIDA KAHLO

Deep Die Flower One Liner Paint
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
FRIDA KAHLO

Away Leaving Night Potrait Presence
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
FRIDA KAHLO

Curtain Freedom Madness
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
FRIDA KAHLO

Muse Positive Subject Want
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
FRIDA KAHLO

Accident Life Worst
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 do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
FRIDA KAHLO

Expression Frank Myself Painting

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

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