Frida Kahlo: Trending quotes

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Wordless,
Infinite —
You.
You intensify
everything.
You are
fire
burning
all that
is left
of my
heart.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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