50 Quotes by Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo, the Mexican artist known for her vibrant and deeply introspective paintings, remains an enduring symbol of artistic expression and resilience. Kahlo's life was marked by physical and emotional pain, stemming from a bus accident that left her with lifelong injuries. Her art, often characterized by its surreal and dreamlike quality, served as a cathartic outlet for her pain and emotional turmoil. Through self-portraiture, Kahlo explored themes of identity, gender, and the complexities of the human experience. Her unique blend of Mexican folk art and modernist elements created a distinct visual language that resonated with both art enthusiasts and the general public. Kahlo's unapologetic depiction of her own reality and her willingness to confront her vulnerabilities has solidified her as an icon of empowerment and self-acceptance, inspiring countless artists and individuals to embrace their authenticity.
Frida Kahlo Quotes
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim. (Meaning)
I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. (Quote Meaning)
Diego was everything; my child, my lover, my universe. (Meaning)
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away. (Quote Meaning)
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.
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
I am my own muse. The subject I know best. (Meaning)
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can. (Quote Meaning)
Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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.
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.
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.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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.
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint. (Meaning)
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
There is nothing more precious than laughter (Quote Meaning)
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you. (Meaning)
I paint flowers so they will not die. (Quote Meaning)
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? (Meaning)
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Pain, pleasure, and death are no more than a process for existence. (Quote Meaning)
You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”
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 think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive. (Meaning)
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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.
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.
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
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.
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 love you more than my own skin. (Quote Meaning)
My painting carries with it the message of pain. (Meaning)
To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.
Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.
I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.
I hope the exit is joyful and hope never to return. (Quote Meaning)
My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?
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.
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
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.
Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
Painting completed my life. (Meaning)
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to. (Quote Meaning)
People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibitions have been a failure, because the rich bitches don't want to buy anything.
I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.
― Frida Kahlo Quotes
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