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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

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Core Deep Mountain
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 drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alcohol Learning Sorrow Swim
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bastard Decent Feeling Learning Overwhelmed Sorrow Swim Try
I want to be inside your darkest everything.
FRIDA KAHLO

Darkness Inside Want
I was a child who went about in a world of colors. My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
FRIDA KAHLO

Children Color Companion Friendship Instant Old Slow Women World
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
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO

Agreement Father Mother Teaching
My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
FRIDA KAHLO

Blood Heart Miracle Vein
Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.
FRIDA KAHLO

Death Existence Intelligence Open Pain Pleasure Process Revolution Struggle
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
I don’t know how to write love letters.
FRIDA KAHLO

Letter Love Writing
I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alive Happiness Paint
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

Count Deserve Encouragement Honesty People
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
FRIDA KAHLO

Endurance Inspirational Thinking
I paint flowers so they will not die.
FRIDA KAHLO

Deep Die Flower One Liner Paint

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

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