50+ Frida Kahlo Quotes & Sayings

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

Blood Heart Miracle Vein
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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Paint Reality
Everyone’s opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.
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Change Constant Rigid Time
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Artist Carry Message Pain Painting
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FRIDA KAHLO

Paint Reality
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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Biscuit Look Lover
I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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Hope Joy Leaving Let Go Return
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
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
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Endurance Inspirational Thinking
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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Human Leaving Love
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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Away Leaving Night Potrait Presence
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 never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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Dreams Nightmare Paint Reality
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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Alcohol Learning Sorrow Swim
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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Curtain Freedom Madness
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 think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
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Believe Problem Process Survival Thinking
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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Flood Song Storm Writing
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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Death Existence Intelligence Open Pain Pleasure Process Revolution Struggle
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
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Alive Broken Heart Happiness Paint Sick
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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Children Color Companion Friendship Instant Old Slow Women World
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
There is nothing more precious than laughter.
FRIDA KAHLO

Laughter Positive Precious
I don’t know how to write love letters.
FRIDA KAHLO

Letter Love Writing
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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Face General Moustache Opposite Sex
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 KAHLO

Children Horrible Life Painting Sorrow Story

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