18 Quotes & Sayings By Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was a twentieth-century painter from Mexico. She is considered to be one of the most important painters of the Mexican art scene, and her work is often associated with that of Diego Rivera. She was a member of several artistic groups in Mexico, most notably the "Tres Generaciones" (The Three Generations) and the "Generation of 1927". Frida's father, Pedro Guillermo Kahlo, was a dentist who legally adopted Frida and gave her his surname Read more

Her mother, Matilde Calderon, was a seamstress. In 1925, at age 19, Frida married the artist Diego Rivera, whom she had met in 1925. The couple had a son named Cristóbal born in 1927.

In 1929 they separated and divorced in 1930. In 1932, aged 25, Frida died after suffering complications from surgery to remove a cyst on her spine.

Feet, what do I need them for If I have...
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Feet, what do I need them for If I have wings to fly. Frida Kahlo
I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own...
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I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. Frida Kahlo
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. Frida Kahlo
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I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving. Frida Kahlo
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You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress of fabrics, the color of colors, the wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells, the war and the sun, everything experienced in the minutes of the non-clocks and the non-calendars and the empty non-glances, is him. Frida Kahlo
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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”. Frida Kahlo
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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
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I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive. Frida Kahlo
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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. Frida Kahlo
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The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it’s like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid. Frida Kahlo
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I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better. Frida Kahlo
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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. Frida Kahlo
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I love you more than my own skin. Frida Kahlo
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I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants. Frida Kahlo
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I am my own muse, the subject I know best. Frida Kahlo
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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. Frida Kahlo
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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