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 KAHLOMy blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
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I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
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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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I want to be inside your darkest everything.
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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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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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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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Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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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 drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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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 don’t know how to write love letters.
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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