I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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 am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
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There is nothing more precious than laughter.
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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 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 want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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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.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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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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The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
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Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.
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I love you more than my own skin.
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Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
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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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