Famous phrases of Frida Kahlo, selected aphorisms and quotations related to the thought of this great Mexican painter, an independent woman symbol of strength and will.
Quotes by Frida Kahlo
- Life flows and opens paths that are not followed in vain. But no one can freely restrain himself to play on that path, because it delays or deflects the atomic and general journey.
- Choose a person who looks at you as if it were a spell.
- I feel that we have been together since our place of origin, that we are of the same matter, of the same waves, which we carry within the same instinct.
- As a child, I crackled. As an adult, I was a flame.
- I tried to drown my pains, but they learned to swim.
- I don't want a love in half measures, torn, divided in half, I have struggled and suffered so much that I deserve something whole, intense, indestructible.
- I give you my universe.
- I look forward to the departure and hope to never return.
- Life insists on being my friend and fate my enemy.
- The love? I do not know. If it includes everything, even the contradictions and the overcoming of oneself, the aberrations and the unspeakable, then yes, go for love.
Otherwise no.
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- I paint for myself because I spend a lot of time alone and because I am the subject I know best.
- Locking up your suffering means risking that you devour yourself from within.
- They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn't. I have never painted dreams. I painted my reality.
- If you sometimes suffer, I want to fill you with tenderness so that you feel better. When you need me, you will always find me near you. Always waiting for you. And I would like to be light and suffused when you want to be alone.
- Scars are openings through which one being enters the solitude of the other.
- Beauty is a game of perceptions, the result of subtractions and continuous additions of the somatic aspects with our moods.
- I don't think the banks of a river suffer to let it go.
- Why do you study so much? What secret are you looking for? Life will reveal it to you soon. I already know everything, without reading or writing.
- I paint flowers to keep them from dying.
- My friends, my companions became women slowly. I got old in a few moments and now everything is tasteless and flat.
- I tried to drown my pains, but they learned to swim.
- You know my sky, you rain on me, and I as earth, I receive you.
- Feet, why do I want them if I have wings to fly?
- Maybe that's why I didn't evaluate the situation well nor did I understand the kind of injuries I had.
Aphorisms by Frida Kahlo
- Nobody is separated from anyone. Nobody fights for himself. Everything is one. Anguish and pain, pleasure and death are nothing more than a process to exist. The revolutionary struggle in this process is an open door to intelligence.
- I was an intelligent but impractical girl, despite the freedom I had gained.
- Revolution is the harmony of form and color and everything exists, and moves, under one law: life.
- Love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.
- Beauty and ugliness are a mirage because others end up seeing our interiority.
- In the end we are able to endure much more than we think.
- I drank because I wanted to drown my pains, but now these damned things have learned to swim.
- If I could give you one thing in life, I'd like to give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes. Only then would you realize how special you are to me.
- Life insists on being my friend and fate my enemy.
- Where you can't love, don't stop.
- 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 way I feel. I would like to imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there and that she is thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and you have to read this, you know that yes, it's true, I'm here and I'm just as strange as you are.
- Now I live on a planet of pain, transparent as ice. it's as if you've learned everything at once, in seconds.
- I'm not sick. I'm in ruins.But I'm happy as long as I can paint.
- Our passage through the world is so absurd and fleeting that it only reassures me the knowledge that I have been authentic, that I managed to be the most similar to myself I was allowed to be.
- What would I do without the absurd?
- Nothing is worth more than laughter and contempt. It is necessary to laugh and abandon yourself. Be cruel and light.
- Locking up your suffering means risking that you devour yourself from within.
- I am very worried about my painting. Above all, I want to turn it into something useful for the communist revolutionary movement, since so far I have only painted the honest expression of myself, far from using my painting to serve the party.
- Death can be cruel, unjust, treacherous, but only life can be obscene, unworthy, humiliating.
- I do not deny my nature, I do not deny my choices, however you look at it, I have been lucky in life.
- Never in my life will I forget your presence. You took me when I was broken and you repaired me.
- I was born with a revolution. Let's face it. It was in that fire that I was born, ready for the impetus of the revolt until the time of day. The day was scorching. It ignited me for the rest of my life.
- I suffered two serious accidents in my life ... the first was when a tram swept me over and the second was Diego Rivera.
- I have always painted my reality, not my dreams.
Phrases of Frida Kahlo
- Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in that closet where you wanted to take a shirt.
- A man noticed that I had a terrible bleeding, lifted me up and laid me on a pool table until the red cross came to get me.
- Ever since I fell in love with you, everything has changed and is so full of beauty. Love is like a perfume, like a current, like rain. You know, my sky, you are like rain and I, like earth, receive you and welcome you.
- I can't write love letters.
- I'm not sick. I'm broken. But I'm happy, as long as I can paint.
- You deserve a love that will break away the lies that bring you the dream, the coffee, and the poetry.
- Choose a person who looks at you as if it were a spell.
- I will look through the window of your eyes to see you.
- Doctor, if you let me drink this tequila, I promise that I will not touch a drop at my funeral.
- An oblivion of words will form the exact language to understand the looks of our closed eyes.
- Is it lawful to invent new verbs? I want to give you one: I give you heaven, so that my wings can stretch out immeasurably, to love you without borders.
- If it includes everything, even the contradictions and the overcoming of oneself, the aberrations and the unspeakable, then yes, go for love.
- Each tick is a second of life that passes, flees and is not repeated. And there is so much intensity and interest in it that the problem is only knowing how to live it.
- The revolutionary struggle in this process is an open door to intelligence.
- I hope the exit is joyful and I hope to never return.
- Anguish and pain, pleasure and death are nothing more than a process to exist.
- Pain is not part of life, it can become life itself.
- Well, I hope that if you are out there and you have to read this, you know that yes, it's true, I'm here and I'm just as strange as you are.
- I was an intelligent but impractical girl, despite the freedom I had gained. Maybe that's why I didn't evaluate the situation well or guess the kind of injuries I had. The first thing I thought of was a beautifully colored toy I had bought that day and brought with me. I wanted to look for him, as if what had happened didn't have much more serious consequences.
- I'd like to imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there and that she is thinking of me too.
- I paint self-portraits because I'm the person I know best.
- They thought I was a surrealist too, but I never was. I have always painted my reality, not my dreams.
- I'd like to give you everything you've never had, and even so you wouldn't know how wonderful it is to love you.
- I tried to drown my pains, but they learned to swim.
- I just want to be where you are. I just want to trust you and love you and be with you. Only with you, within you, around you, in all conceivable and inconceivable places. I'd like to be where you are.
