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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

My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bicycle Toy
To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
FRIDA KAHLO

Difficult Paint Terrific
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
FRIDA KAHLO

Face General Moustache Opposite Sex
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
FRIDA KAHLO

Destiny Destroy Earth Mankind
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

People Same Stranger Thinking World
Painting completed my life.
FRIDA KAHLO

Complete Life Painting
I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alive Happiness Paint
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO

Agreement Father Mother Teaching
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Death Express Fear Hero Intense Invention Life People Reason
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
FRIDA KAHLO

Curtain Freedom Madness
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alcohol Learning Sorrow Swim
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Buy Death Exhibition Failure General People Rich Scare War
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
FRIDA KAHLO

Canvas Mind Painting
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Artist Carry Message Pain Painting
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
FRIDA KAHLO

Biscuit Look Lover
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
FRIDA KAHLO

Absolute Change Fly Life Move Revolve Time

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

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