Frida Kahlo citations

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

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

“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.”

“I paint flowers so they will not die.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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 want to be inside your darkest everything”

“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.”

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

“You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.”

“My Diego: Mirror of the night Your eyes green swords inside my flesh. waves between our hands. All of you in a space full of sounds — in the shade and in the light. You were called AUXOCHROME the one who captures color. I CHROMOPHORE — the one who gives color. You are all the combinations of numbers. life. My wish is to understand lines form shades movement. You fulfill and I receive. Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.”

“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.”

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

“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”

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

“pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence”

“There is nothing more precious than laughter”

“I love you more than my own skin.”