Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
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There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
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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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Painting completed my life.
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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.
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I paint flowers to prevent them from dying
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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
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I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
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There is nothing more precious than laughter
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The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.
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Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.
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I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.
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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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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.
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Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.
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Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.
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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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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.
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To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.
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I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.
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I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
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What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?
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