FRIDA KHALO FAMOUS QUOTE
Discover the most famous quotes and proverbs of Frida Khalo, a famous painter, leading figure of Mexican culture.
Feet, why would I want them, if I have wings to fly.
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To reduce suffering is to take the risk that it will devour you from within.
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Pain, pleasure and death are nothing more than the process of life. The revolutionary struggle in this process is an open door to intelligence.
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Doctor, if you let me drink this tequila, I promise not to drink anything at my funeral.
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At the end of the day, we can handle a lot more than we thought we could.
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Life insists on being my friend and my goal my enemy.
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There's nothing more beautiful than a laugh.
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What doesn't kill me, feeds me.
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They call me surreal, but I'm not. I have never painted dreams but my own reality.
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Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything turns, everything steals and disappears.
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Beauty and ugliness are a mirror because others always end up seeing our interior.
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I tried to drown my sorrows, but they learned to swim the buggers, and now I'm overwhelmed by this decent and pleasant feeling.
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Some are born with a star and others like stars that have fallen to the ground, crushed, beaten, and although you may not want to believe it, I am one of those who have fallen well to the ground.
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I used to think I was the weirdest person in the world, and then I thought, there are a lot of people like that in the world, there must be someone like me, who feels strange and bruised like me. I imagine that and I imagine that she too must be thinking about me. If you exist and read me, know that if I exist and I am as strange as you are.
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I would like to give you everything you have never had, and even then you would never know how wonderful it is to love yourself.
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Can verbs be invented? I want to tell you one: I heaven you, and so my wings stretch, huge, to love you without limits.
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There have been two major accidents in my life. One was the cart and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
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I paint self-portraits because I feel alone so often, because I am the person I know best.
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrow, but now these damn things have learned to swim.
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I'm not sick. I'm not sick. I'm broken. But I feel happy to continue to live, as long as I can paint.
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I think that little by little I will be able to solve my problems and survive.
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In the end, we can support much more than we think.
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I love you more than my own skin.
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How can I call my Diego? It has never been and will never be mine, it belongs only to itself.
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Nothing is more ridiculous than tragedy, she wrote in her diary. Nothing is more important than laughter.
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Take a lover who looks at you like you're magic.
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The only thing I know is that I paint because I have to and I paint everything that goes through my head without any other consideration.
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I cannot talk about Diego like my husband because this term, when applied to him, is an absurdity. He has never been and will never be anyone's husband.
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I leave you my portrait so that you can have my presence every day and every night when I will be away from you.
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I hope the exit is happy and I hope never to come back.
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Surrealism is the magic surprise of finding a lion in a closet, where you were sure to find shirts.
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The only good news is that I'm starting to get used to suffering...
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I have nothing because I don't have him.
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According to what you write to me, the Mediterranean is wonderfully blue. Will I ever know her? I don't think so, because I wasn't born under a lucky star; yet my dearest wish has always been to travel. All I will have left is the melancholy of the readers of travel stories.
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Some critics have tried to classify me as a surrealist, but I don't consider myself as such (...) In fact, I don't know if my paintings are surreal or not, but I know that they are the most honest expression of myself (...) I hate surrealism. It seems to me to be a decadent manifestation of bourgeois art. A deviation from the true art that people hope to receive from the artist (...) I would like my painting and myself to be worthy of the people to whom I belong and the ideas that give me strength (...) I would like my work to contribute to the struggle for peace and freedom...
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You deserve a love that makes you get up quickly in the morning, and that keeps away all those demons that won't let you sleep.
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You deserve a love that makes you feel safe, able to get the moon when it walks by your side.
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You deserve a love that wants to dance with you, that finds paradise every time it looks into your eyes, that never misses reading your expressions.
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You deserve a love that would sweep away lies and bring you dreams, coffee and poetry.
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To create your own paradise, you have to draw from your personal hell.
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So I will be friends with those who love me as I am.