Frida Kahlo > Quotes

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

“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

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

“I paint my own reality. 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.

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― Frida Kahlo

“i hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
― Frida Kahlo

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

“They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.”
― Frida Kahlo

“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

“I hope the end is joyful, and I hope never to return.”
― Frida Kahlo

“traté de ahogar mis penas... pero las condenadas aprendieron a nadar.”
― Frida Kahlo

“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.”
― Frida Kahlo

“My painting carries with it the message of pain.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I hope the leaving is joyful, and I hope never to return.”
― Frida Kahlo

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

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
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― Frida Kahlo

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

“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

“Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?”
― Frida Kahlo

“Que todo termina en un instante
Planatera doloroso”
― Frida Kahlo

“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

“I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.”
― Frida Kahlo

“A vida é cruel por ter inventado a memória. Como os velhos que recobram em matizes suas lembranças mais antigas, à beira da morte minha memória gravita em torno do sol, e como ele clareia tudo! Tudo é presente, nada está perdido. É como uma força oculta que nos impele para nos estimular de novo: diante da evidência de que não mais haverá futuro, o passado se amplifica, suas raízes engrossam, tudo em mim é rizosfera, as cores se cristalizam sobre cada estrato, a mais insignificante imagem toca o seu absoluto, o coração bate em crescendo.”
― Frida Kahlo

“Mai in vita mia
Dimenticherò la tua presenza.
Tu mi hai presa quando ero spezzata
E mi hai riparata
Su questa terra troppo piccola
Dove potrei mai voltare il mio sguardo?
Così immenso, così profondo!
Non c'è più tempo. Non c'è più nulla. Distanza. C'è soltanto la realtà.
Quello che è stato, è stato per sempre.”
― Frida Kahlo, Diego et Frida

“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
― Frida Kahlo

“no moon, sun, diamond, hands —
fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea.
pine green, pink glass, eye,
mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.”
― Frida Kahlo, The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait