Frida Kahlo quotes:

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

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

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

I love you more than my own skin.

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

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.

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

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.

Painting completed my life.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

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

Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

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

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

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

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

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

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

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

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

I paint flowers so they will not die.

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

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

I paint my own reality.

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.

I hope the departue is joyful and I hope never to return

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

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

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

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.

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.

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

There is nothing more precious than laughter

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

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

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.

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

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

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

I don't like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.

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.

It's not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture. So at the emerging level, you can't have a good survey art show without women and artists of color.

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

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.

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.

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

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

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

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

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