Quote #10

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

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Frida Kahlo

  1. I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.
  2. If I Were A Painter, I'd Be Frida Kahlo.
  3. Pies, para que los quiero Si tengo alas para volar.
  4. I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
  5. They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
  6. I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.
  7. 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 th…
  8. I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

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