Quotes by
Frida Kahlo |
1907-1954 , Mexican painter
Known for her many self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and the popular culture of Mexico. At 18, she had an accident which, combined with the polio since childhood, left her almost paralyzed.She was married to cubist wall-painter Diego Rivera (both were members of the Mexican Communist Party).
She is an icon today, but Kahlo's work as an artist was forgotten until the late 1970s, when her work was rediscovered by art historians and political activists.
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Quotations
| • | Don’t build a wall around your suffering. It may devour you from the inside. 3 |
| • | I paint flowers so they will not die. 3 |
| • | Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic. 2 |
| • | At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can. 2 |
| • | I love you more than my own skin. 1 |
| • | I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls. 1 |
| • | You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry. 1 |
| • | Fall in love with yourself, with life, and then with whoever you want. 1 |
| • | 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. 1 |
| • | Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away. 1 |
| • | They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. 1 |
| • | Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? 1 |
| • | I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. 1 |
| • | Man is master of his destiny and his destiny is the earth, and he himself is destroying it until he runs out of destiny. 1 |
| • | Where you can't love, don't waste time. 1 |
| • | So absurd and fleeting is our passage through this world, that only the knowledge that I have been authentic, that I have managed to be the closest thing to myself, leaves me calm. 1 |
| • | I’m not sick. I am broke. But I'm happy to live as long as I can paint. 1 |
