Frida Kahlo Short Quotes

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I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.
Last words

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Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly.

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

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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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There is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

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

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

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

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I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior!

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

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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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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

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

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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.

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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.

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