Frida Kahlo Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.”
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“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.”
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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”
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“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
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“I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.”
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“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
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“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
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“My painting carries with it the message of pain.”
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“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
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“Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change,”
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“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
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“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
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“There is nothing more precious than laughter”
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“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.”
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“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”
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“I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
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“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”
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“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
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“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
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“pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence”
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“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.”
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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.”
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“I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.”
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“I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”
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“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”
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“Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.”
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