Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy.
Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is known for painting about her experience of chronic pain.
In her well-known quotations, the artist discusses the value of art, love, and being true to oneself. She also touches on the essence of life, sorrow, suffering, and many other topics.
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Here is a collection of Frida Kahlo most inspiring quotes: Frida Kahlo quotes about life, love, lovers, dreams, strength and feminism. Famous Frida Kahlo Quotes in English. Frida Kahlo quotes love yourself. Quotes and sayings on art, painting, humanity, human, adversity, healing, steadfastness and overcome problems by Frida Kahlo.
Short quotes by Frida Kahlo
There is nothing more precious than laughter.
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
I want to be inside your darkest everything.
I was born a bitch. I was born a painter.
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Where you cannot love, do not delay.
Sometimes you have to forget what you feel, and remember what you deserve.
I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
feet, what do I need you for if I have wings to fly?
At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can.
Why do I need feet when I have wings to fly?
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
To wall off your own suffering is to risk it devouring you from the inside.
Feet, what do I need them for If I have wings to fly.
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
I paint flowers so they will not die.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
I want to be inside your darkest everything.
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
I love you more than my own skin.
I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
Today is like always.
I am my own muse, the subject I know best.
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
Frida Kahlo Quotes and Sayings
The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
It is terrifying to see the rich having parties day and night while thousands and thousands of people are dying of hunger.
To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the train the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
I'm more and more convinced it's only through communism that we can become human.
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do whatever you want.
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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.
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.
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.
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.
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
Can verbs be made up? I'll tell you one. I heaven you, so my wings will open wide to love you boundlessly.
I am nauseated by all these rotten people in Europe - and these fucking "democracies" are not worth even a crumb.
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.
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.
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.
You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.
I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of "madness". Then: I'd arrange flowers, all day long, I'd paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: "Poor thing, she's crazy!" (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else's - my madness would not be an escape from "reality".
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.
I think it's best we split up and I go play my music somewhere else with all my bourgeois prejudices of allegiance.
The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it's like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.
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.
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.
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim ,and now decency and good behavior weary me.
This upper class is disgusting and I'm furious at all these rich people here, having seen thousands of people in abject squalor.
They sit for hours in the "cafes" warming their precious behinds, and talk without stopping about "culture" "art" "revolution" and so on and so forth, thinking themselves the gods of the world, dreaming the most fantastic nonsenses and poisoning the air with theories and theories that never come true.
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.
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.
To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
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.
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
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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