Frida Kahlo
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.Collection: Great
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.Collection: Dreams
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.Collection: Dreams
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.Collection: Best
I love you more than my own skin.Collection: Romantic
I am my own muse, the subject I know best.Collection: Best
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.Collection: Good
I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.Collection: Women
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
I paint flowers so they will not die.
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
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 find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.
Painting completed my life.
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 am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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 am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
I don't know how to write love letters.
To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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.
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.Collection: Thinking
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.Collection: Moving
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.Collection: Want
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Love
Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.Collection: Love You
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.Collection: Swim
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.Collection: White
There is nothing more precious than laughterCollection: Daughter
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.Collection: Leaving
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.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.Collection: Pain
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.Collection: Long
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.Collection: Looks
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.Collection: Rain
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.Collection: Destiny
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Ideas
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.Collection: Laughter
What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?Collection: Ephemeral
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: I Love You More
Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.Collection: Stars
I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.Collection: Return
Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.Collection: Tragedy