Quotes by Frida Kahlo
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.
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.
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
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.
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
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 never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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.
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.