I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLOEveryone’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.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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I want to be inside your darkest everything.
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Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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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 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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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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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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My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
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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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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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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.
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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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