Frida Kahlo famous quotes

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.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Rain #Love You #Love Is

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Long #Broken #Sick

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.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Love #Hope #Recovery

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Mountain

I paint flowers so they will not die.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Flower #Paint #Woman Artist

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Love #Art #Happy Friday

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Moving

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Thinking #The End Of The Day #Ends

My painting carries with it the message of pain.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Pain #Happy Friday #Artist

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Love #Art #Happy Friday

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change,
-- Frida Kahlo

#Pain #Passion #Bridges

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
-- Frida Kahlo

#Strong Women #Art #Reality

I love you more than my own skin.
-- Frida Kahlo

#I Love You #Happy Friday #Skins

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Swim #Sorrow #Drank

There is nothing more precious than laughter
-- Frida Kahlo

#Laughter

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

#Ambition #Important

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

#Laughter #Light #Laughing

Painting completed my life.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Art #Happy Friday #Artist

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Thinking #Littles #Able

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Love #Happy Friday #Two

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Dream #Art #Happy Friday

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Dream #Reality #Surrealist

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

#Pain #Struggle #Doorways

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying
-- Frida Kahlo

#Flower #Dying #Paint

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

#Pain #Crazy #Flower

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.
-- Frida Kahlo

#I Love You More #Skins #Littles

I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Faces #Boring

I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Return #Exit #Joyful

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Want #Muse #Subjects

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Expression #Painting #Surrealist

Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Stars #Light #Cells

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

#Love #Drinking #Happy Friday

I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Real #Fighting #Littles

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Leaving #Humans

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
-- Frida Kahlo

#War #People #Exhibitions

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Looks #Biscuits #Lovers

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.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Art #Happy Friday #Needs

You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”
-- Frida Kahlo

#Strong #Heart #Men

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Song #Storm #Want

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?
-- Frida Kahlo

#Ephemeral #Absurd

My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Children #Pain #Thinking

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Destiny #Earth #Destroying

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Skeletons #Faces #Will To Live

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Art #Work #Satisfaction

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Art #Lions #Surprise

I paint my own reality.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Art #Reality #Painting

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Real #Order #Profound

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Tragedy #Ridiculous #Ridiculous Things

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Self #Risk #Suffering

No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Mother #Eye #Moon

To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Stars #Knowing #Bird

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Mexico #Surrealist

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Love You #Sky #Wings

It was worthwhile to come here only to see why Europe is rottening, why all this people - good for nothing - are the cause of all the Hitlers and Mussolinis.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Europe #People #Causes

My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Heart #Air #Blood

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Two #Graves #Accidents