Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
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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Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
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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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I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
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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 was a child who went about in a world of colors. My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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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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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 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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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 never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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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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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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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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I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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