33 Frida Kahlo Quotes

Frida Kahlo quotes

1. A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was was a game for me. If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning elucidated the earth. Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice; but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds.

2. I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

3. I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

4. His [Diego Rivera's] supposed mythomania is in direct relation to his tremendous imagination. That is to say, he is as much of a liar as the poets or as the children who have not yet been turned into idiots by school or mothers. I have heard him tell all kinds of lies: from the most innocent, to the most complicated stories about people whom his imagination combined in a fantastic situation or actions, always with a great sense of humor and a marvelous critical sense; but I have never heard him say a single stupid or banal lie. Lying, or playing at lying, he unmasks many people, he learns the interior mechanism of others, who are much more ingenuously liars than he, and the most curious thing about the supposed lies of Diego, is that in the long and short of it, those who are involved in the imaginary combination become angry, not because of the lie, but because of the truth contained in the lie, that always comes to the surface.

5. I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

6. They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

7. I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.

8. Pies, para que los quiero Si tengo alas para volar.

9. I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.

10. The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

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11. If I Were A Painter, I'd Be Frida Kahlo.

1. I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.

2. Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

3. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

4. Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

5. To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

6. 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.

7. Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

8. I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

9. Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

10. Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

11. I paint flowers so they will not die.

12. Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

13. I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

14. Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.

15. At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

16. 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.

17. I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

18. My painting carries with it the message of pain.

19. I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.

20. I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

21. 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.

22. I hope the departue is joyful and I hope never to return.