Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.
FRIDA KAHLOI tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
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Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
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I love you more than my own skin.
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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
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Painting completed my life.
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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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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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There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
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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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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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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 paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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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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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.
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Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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