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Frida Kahlo

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My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
Frida Kahlo
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
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
Frida Kahlo
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
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
Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.
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I am my own muse, the subject I know best.
Frida Kahlo
I paint flowers so they will not die.
Frida Kahlo
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
Frida Kahlo
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
Frida Kahlo
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
I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
Frida Kahlo
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
Frida Kahlo
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
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo
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
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
Frida Kahlo
To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.
Frida Kahlo
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
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
Frida Kahlo
Painting completed my life.
Frida Kahlo
There is so much wealth and so much misery at the same time, that it seems incredible that people can endure such class difference, and accept such a form of hunger while on the other hand, the millionaires throw away millions on stupidities.
Frida Kahlo
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
I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
Frida Kahlo
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
To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
Frida Kahlo
I love you more than my own skin.
Frida Kahlo
I don't know how to write love letters.
Frida Kahlo
I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
Frida Kahlo
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
Frida Kahlo

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