Top 80 Frida Kahlo Quotes
#1. The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it's like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.
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#2. I want to be inside your darkest everything
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#3. 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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#4. I am nauseated by all these rotten people in Europe - and these fucking "democracies" are not worth even a crumb.
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#5. My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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#6. No moon, sun, diamond, hands - fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.
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#7. I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
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#8. I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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#9. They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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#10. 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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#12. The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.
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#13. Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
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#14. 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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#15. To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.
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#16. feet, what do i need you for if i have wings to fly?
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#17. Wordless,
Infinite -
You.
You intensify
everything.
You are
fire
burning
all that
is left
of my
heart.
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#19. 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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#20. My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
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#21. 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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#22. Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
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#23. It was worthwhile to come here only to see why Europe is rottening, why all this people - good for nothing - are the cause of all the Hitlers and Mussolinis.
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#24. It's not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture. So at the emerging level, you can't have a good survey art show without women and artists of color.
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#25. Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.
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#26. 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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#27. I could kill that guy and eat it afterwards...
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#28. I don't know how to write love letters.
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#29. I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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#30. I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
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#31. Really, 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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#32. Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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#33. I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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#34. Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.
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#35. 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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#36. "I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim."
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#37. At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
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#38. There is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.
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#39. You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.
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#40. I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down ... The other accident is Diego.
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#41. I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.
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#42. I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
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#43. I don't give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious. I am; simply I am ... You are a shit.
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#44. I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.
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#45. 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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#46. I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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#47. Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly.
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#48. To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves
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#49. The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.
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#50. Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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#51. I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
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#52. Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
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#53. I 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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#55. My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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#56. 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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#57. I don't like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.
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#58. 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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#59. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.
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#60. Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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#61. I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.
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#62. There is nothing more precious than laughter
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#64. I am my own muse, the subject I know best.
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#65. Why do I need feet when I have wings to fly?
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#66. I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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#67. What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?
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#68. I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.
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#69. I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.
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#70. To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
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#71. I paint flowers to prevent them from dying
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#72. Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change,
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#73. I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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#74. 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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#75. Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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#76. I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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#77. They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore ... I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.
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#78. I love you more than my own skin and even though you don't love me the same way, you love me anyways, don't you? And if you don't, I'll always have the hope that you do, and i'm satisfied with that. Love me a little. I adore you.
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#79. I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
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#80. I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
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