They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. Frida Kahlo More Quotes by Frida Kahlo More Quotes From Frida Kahlo Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away. Frida Kahlo absolutes moving Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change. Frida Kahlo passion pain bridges 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. Frida Kahlo recovery hope love I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better. Frida Kahlo muse subjects want At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can. Frida Kahlo enduring-to-the-end the-end-of-the-day thinking Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure. Frida Kahlo love-you sky wings 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”. Frida Kahlo pain crazy flower 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. Frida Kahlo males racism white I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving. Frida Kahlo clumsy leaving humans 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. Frida Kahlo rain love-you love-is Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit. Frida Kahlo biscuits lovers looks 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. Frida Kahlo i-love-you-more skins way I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. Frida Kahlo drank sorrow swim 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. Frida Kahlo pain children thinking There is nothing more precious than laughter Frida Kahlo mother-daughter laughter daughter Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny. Frida Kahlo destroying destiny earth I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote. Frida Kahlo storm want 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. Frida Kahlo forever littles ideas Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? Frida Kahlo strong-women uplifting art Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing. Frida Kahlo laughter light laughing
