Top 94 Quotes About Frida Kahlo
#2. 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
#3. Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything.
Chavela Vargas
#4. Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.
Koren Zailckas
#5. 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
#6. There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
Paloma Faith
#7. The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.
Billy Cannon
#8. 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
#9. The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
Andre Breton
#10. 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
#11. Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
Frida Kahlo
#12. I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.
Frida Kahlo
#13. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.
Frida Kahlo
#14. 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
#15. I don't like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.
Frida Kahlo
#16. 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
#17. My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
Frida Kahlo
#19. 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
#20. Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
Frida Kahlo
#21. I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
Frida Kahlo
#22. Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
Frida Kahlo
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly.
Frida Kahlo
#26. I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
Frida Kahlo
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
Frida Kahlo
#31. 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.
Frida Kahlo
#32. I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.
Frida Kahlo
#33. I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
Frida Kahlo
#34. 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.
Frida Kahlo
#35. 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.
Frida Kahlo
#36. I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
Frida Kahlo
#37. Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
Frida Kahlo
#38. 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
#39. I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
Frida Kahlo
#40. Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change,
Frida Kahlo
#41. I paint flowers to prevent them from dying
Frida Kahlo
#42. To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
Frida Kahlo
#43. It's important not to insist that people try things against their will. The palate is for pleasure, not for obligations.
F. G. Haghenbeck
#44. I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.
Frida Kahlo
#45. What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?
Frida Kahlo
#46. I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo
#47. Why do I need feet when I have wings to fly?
Frida Kahlo
#48. 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
#49. I am my own muse, the subject I know best.
Frida Kahlo
#51. There is nothing more precious than laughter
Frida Kahlo
#52. 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.
Frida Kahlo
#53. 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
#54. My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
Frida Kahlo
#55. 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
#57. Wordless,
Infinite -
You.
You intensify
everything.
You are
fire
burning
all that
is left
of my
heart.
Frida Kahlo
#58. feet, what do i need you for if i have wings to fly?
Frida Kahlo
#59. To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.
Frida Kahlo
#60. 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
#61. Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
Frida Kahlo
#62. 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
#64. I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
Frida Kahlo
#65. They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
Frida Kahlo
#66. I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
Frida Kahlo
#67. I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
Frida Kahlo
#68. No moon, sun, diamond, hands - fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.
Frida Kahlo
#69. My painting carries with it the message of pain.
Frida Kahlo
#70. I am nauseated by all these rotten people in Europe - and these fucking "democracies" are not worth even a crumb.
Frida Kahlo
#71. 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
#72. I want to be inside your darkest everything
Frida Kahlo
#73. 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
#74. I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. There is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.
Frida Kahlo
#78. At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Frida Kahlo
#79. "I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim."
Frida Kahlo
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
Frida Kahlo
#83. Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
Frida Kahlo
#84. 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
#85. I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down ... The other accident is Diego.
Frida Kahlo
#86. I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
Frida Kahlo
#87. I don't know how to write love letters.
Frida Kahlo
#88. I could kill that guy and eat it afterwards...
Frida Kahlo
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
Frida Kahlo
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