Frida Kahlo - Paint Quotes

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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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I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.

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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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I returned to school [after the bus accident], but I felt very sore and had little strength. I took my paintings to Diego [Rivera], and he liked them a lot, most of all the self-portrait. But of the rest he told me that I was influenced by Doctor Atl [a Mexican painter and revolutionary] and by Montenegro, and that I should try to paint whatever I wanted without being influenced by anyone else. That impressed me a lot, and I began to paint that I believed in. Then the friendship and almost courtship with Diego began. I would go to see him paint in the afternoon, and afterwards he would take me home by bus or in a Fordcito – a little Ford that he had – and he would kiss me.

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