Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist who is best known for her self-portraits. She was a prominent figure in the Mexican art scene and was heavily influenced by Mexican folk culture. Her works often explored questions of identity, gender, class, and postcolonialism. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Frida Kahlo on love, death, diego rivera.
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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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.
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.
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
There is nothing more precious than laughter
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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. — Frida Kahlo
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint. — Frida Kahlo
I paint flowers so they will not die. — Frida Kahlo
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? — Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Short Quotes
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.
My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?
Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can.
I am my own muse, the subject I know best.
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Frida Kahlo Quotes About Love
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
I love you more than my own skin. — Frida Kahlo
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
I paint flowers so they will not die.
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
I don't know how to write love letters. — Frida Kahlo
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
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving. — Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Quotes About Death
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
... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live. — Frida Kahlo
People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibitions have been a failure, because the rich bitches don't want to buy anything. — Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Quotes About Life
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
Painting completed my life. — Frida Kahlo
I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego. — Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Quotes About Surrealistic
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. — 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
I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was. — Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Quotes About Paint
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. — Frida Kahlo
I paint flowers so they will not die. — 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
My painting carries with it the message of pain. — Frida Kahlo
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. — Frida Kahlo
I paint my own reality. — Frida Kahlo
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to. — Frida Kahlo
I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint. — 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
I paint flowers to prevent them from dying — Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Famous Quotes And Sayings
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. — Frida Kahlo
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint. — 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 paint flowers so they will not die. — Frida Kahlo
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
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. — Frida Kahlo
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
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts. — 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
No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming. — Frida Kahlo
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny. — 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
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
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
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away. — Frida Kahlo
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
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me. — Frida Kahlo
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
My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles. — Frida Kahlo
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
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain. — Frida Kahlo
To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside. — 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
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. — Frida Kahlo
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face. — Frida Kahlo
To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult. — Frida Kahlo
I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls. — Frida Kahlo
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
My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. 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. — Frida Kahlo
Life Lessons by Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo's work is a powerful reminder of the importance of self-expression and authenticity. She embraced her identity and used her art to explore her own experiences and emotions.
Her art is a reminder to stay true to yourself and to never be afraid to express yourself. She also encourages us to embrace our individualism and to celebrate our own unique perspectives.
Frida Kahlo's work can also teach us to be resilient and to find strength in adversity. Her art is a testament to her strength and courage in the face of adversity.
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