“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”
Variante: Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
Frida Kahlo: 51 citations0 J'aime
Frida Kahlo: Citations en anglais
“Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly.”
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
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
Quoted in Time Magazine, "Mexican Autobiography" (27 April 1953)
1946 - 1953
Variante: I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
Source: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
“I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.”
Last words in her diary (July 1954)
1946 - 1953
“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.”
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
Variante: I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.
“I want to be inside your darkest everything”
Source: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
Variante: 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.
9 September 1950
Source: 1946 - 1953, "Song of herself"; interviews by Olga Campos, Sept. 1950, Chapter 'My life', p. 64
“I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human.”
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
“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
Quoted from: Antonio Rodríguez, "Una pintora extraordinaria," Así (17 March 1945)
1925 - 1945
Variante: I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Quote in Imagen de Frida Kahlo by Gisèle Freund in Novedades (Mexico City) (10 June 1951)
1946 - 1953
Source: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
“There is nothing more precious than laughter”
Source: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
