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“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 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

“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”

Frida Kahlo

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

“I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human.”

Frida Kahlo

Quote of Frida Kahlo, in her letter from US, during the 1930s, from https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/09/kah2-s11.html <br class="br">1925 - 1945

“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”

Frida Kahlo

Source: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

“Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly.”

Frida Kahlo

Pies, para qué los quiero
Si tengo alas para volar.
Diary illustration, dated 1953, preceding a foot amputation in August of that year; reproduced on page 415 of Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983)
1946 - 1953

“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

“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.”

Frida Kahlo

“People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything”

Frida Kahlo

“I was really ugly [circa 8 a 10 years old] and had an admiration complex for Christi [her beautiful sister]. They sent us tot the ous of senora Maria a Campos for instruction... I asked about the mysteries of the Bible, and I think I behaved badly so they sent me to a retreat. It was the usual thing: "to dedicate oneself mor to God".... it was a house where one spent about fifteen days... I asked the priest so many questions about how Christ was born, and was the virgin really a virgin, that they threw me out.”

Frida Kahlo

9 September 1950
Source: 1946 - 1953, "Song of herself"; interviews by Olga Campos, Sept. 1950, Chapter 'My life', p. 64

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

Frida Kahlo

Quoted in Time Magazine, "Mexican Autobiography" (27 April 1953)
1946 - 1953
Variant: I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

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

Frida Kahlo

Quote in a letter to Ella Wolfe, "Wednesday 13," 1938, as cited in Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983) ISBN 0-06-091127-1 , p. 197. In a footnote (p.467), Herrera writes that Kahlo had heard this joke from her friend, the poet José Frías.
1925 - 1945
Variant: I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.

“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

Variant: 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.

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

Frida Kahlo

“I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.”

Frida Kahlo

Last words in her diary (July 1954)
1946 - 1953