Frida Kahlo Quotes on Art, Love & Life
The quotes of Frida Kahlo is as colorful as her artworks and life.
She is arguably the most influential female artist that ever lived.
I visited her blue house in Mexico City and felt her strength still permeating the walls.
Her courage in her self-knowledge is an inspiration.
Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the woman herself.
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Quotes on Art
“I was born a bitch. I was born a painter.”
“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 don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of ‘madness’. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: ‘Poor thing, she’s crazy!’ (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.)”
Quotes on Love and Life
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
“I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.”
“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
“I hope the exit is joyful. And I hope never to return.”
“I love you more than my own skin.”
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.”
“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”
“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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