Top 100 Frida's Quotes
#1. Grandma Frida's skinny legs in jeans stuck out from under the vehicle. To the right, Arabella lounged on
Ilona Andrews
#2. During her life she was in Rivera's shadow. She was framed as the 'Wife of the Master Mural Painter [who] Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art', as the patronizing headline of the Detroit News proclaimed in February 1933. Today, Rivera is known as Frida's husband.
Gannit Ankori
#3. 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
Frida Kahlo
#4. There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
Frida Kahlo
#5. I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.
Frida Giannini
#6. Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly.
Frida Kahlo
#7. All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.
Frida Giannini
#8. It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought ... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
Edan Lepucki
#9. I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.
Madonna Ciccone
#10. Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
Diego Rivera
#11. They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
Salma Hayek
#12. Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.
Frida Giannini
#13. If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.
Diego Rivera
#14. I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
Frida Kahlo
#15. 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.
Frida Kahlo
#16. 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.
Frida Kahlo
#17. 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.
Frida Kahlo
#18. I'm going to shoot him," I squeezed through my teeth. "No, that would be murder," Grandma Frida told me, her voice soothing. "You've had a long day. Let's put your magic away. You know what you need? A nice cup of chamomile tea and a tranquilizer . . ." I
Ilona Andrews
#19. I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
Frida Kahlo
#20. I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.
Frida Kahlo
#21. I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down ... The other accident is Diego.
Frida Kahlo
#22. My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.
Francesca Lia Block
#23. 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.
Frida Kahlo
#24. There is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.
Frida Kahlo
#25. At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Frida Kahlo
#26. "I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim."
Frida Kahlo
#27. I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.
Frida Giannini
#29. 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.
Frida Kahlo
#30. Mom?" Mother turned to Grandmother.
"What?"
"She's going to lunch with her kidnapper!"
"Take a picture for me," Grandma said.
Ilona Andrews
#31. One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.
Madonna Ciccone
#32. Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs.
Pascale Petit
#33. It's important not to insist that people try things against their will. The palate is for pleasure, not for obligations.
F. G. Haghenbeck
#34. I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
Frida Kahlo
#35. I'm honored and thrilled to represent such an iconic brand and to be a part of the Maybelline New York family.
Frida Gustavsson
#36. I don't like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.
Frida Kahlo
#37. Fragrance is, to me, something very personal; because it is something you wear every day, it should represent you and be an extension of your style.
Frida Gustavsson
#38. 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
#39. My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
Frida Kahlo
#40. The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.
Billy Cannon
#41. The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to relax, reflect and recharge.
Frida Giannini
#42. There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
Paloma Faith
#43. 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
#44. Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
Frida Kahlo
#45. If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.
Frida Giannini
#46. I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
Frida Kahlo
#47. Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
Frida Kahlo
#48. Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.
Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver
#49. I like tough relationships. I think relationships with conflict are good for you - you learn. But you can't listen too much. I have a strong point of view, and it's important that I fight for my ideas.
Frida Giannini
#50. July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.
Diego Rivera
#51. 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.
Frida Kahlo
#52. I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
Frida Kahlo
#53. Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
Frida Kahlo
#54. I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.
Frida Lyngstad
#55. Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
Frida Kahlo
#56. 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.
Frida Kahlo
#57. A Maybelline New York woman is strong and confident - I love that attitude.
Frida Gustavsson
#58. 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 this. I think work is the best. (Frida Kahlo, p. 157)
Martha Zamora
#60. The first thing I notice about a man are his shoes. Then I look at his watch.
Frida Giannini
#61. 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
#62. They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
Frida Kahlo
#63. I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later.
Diego Rivera
#64. My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.
Frida Giannini
#65. To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.
Frida Kahlo
#66. I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
Frida Kahlo
#67. No moon, sun, diamond, hands - fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.
Frida Kahlo
#68. My painting carries with it the message of pain.
Frida Kahlo
#70. Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.
Isabella Rossellini
#71. I'm really good at World of Warcraft. Like, crazy good. Put me in front of a computer and it's like I enter some other universe.
Frida Gustavsson
#72. I am nauseated by all these rotten people in Europe - and these fucking "democracies" are not worth even a crumb.
Frida Kahlo
#73. 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
#74. I want to be inside your darkest everything
Frida Kahlo
#75. The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it's like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.
Frida Kahlo
#76. Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
Frida Lyngstad
#77. 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.
Frida Kahlo
#78. The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
Andre Breton
#79. I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
Frida Kahlo
#80. Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
Frida Kahlo
#81. Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
Frida Kahlo
#82. I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo
#83. I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
Frida Kahlo
#84. I don't know how to write love letters.
Frida Kahlo
#85. I could kill that guy and eat it afterwards...
Frida Kahlo
#86. I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, / my shivering bird heart / caught
Pascale Petit
#87. 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 Kahlo
#88. Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.
Frida Kahlo
#89. Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.
Frida Kahlo
#90. 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.
Frida Kahlo
#91. Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
Frida Kahlo
#92. I'm obsessed with vinyasa flow yoga and Pilates. And since I live in Sweden, and we have good seafood, I tend to cook a lot of fish, preferably with oven-roasted veggies and a cauliflower mash.
Frida Gustavsson
#93. Did you see how she got all hot under the collar?" Grandma Frida said in a theatrical whisper behind me. She's not over him.
"I can hear you!
Ilona Andrews
#94. I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
Frida Kahlo
#95. My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
Frida Kahlo
#96. I try to be as organic and natural as possible when it comes to make up, so I always carry around coconut oil for removing and jojoba or Argan oil as a moisturiser.
Frida Gustavsson
#97. Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence
Frida Kahlo
#99. Wordless,
Infinite -
You.
You intensify
everything.
You are
fire
burning
all that
is left
of my
heart.
Frida Kahlo
#100. feet, what do i need you for if i have wings to fly?
Frida Kahlo
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