Yahoo Lifestyle 40 Frida Kahlo Quotes to Remind You to Paint, Laugh and Find People Who Treat You Well
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo was a painter and feminist who is considered one of Mexico’s greatest artists. Born in the summer of 1907, she endured many hardships throughout her life, such as polio, a serious trolley accident, her husband’s cheating, gangrene and depression. Painting helped her heal from these various forms of emotional and physical pain.
In 1922, Frida Kahlo attended the National Preparatory School in Mexico City, in which she was known for being an outspoken and courageous woman. There, she met another famous Mexican artist, Diego Rivera, whom she later married.
The two divorced in 1939, the same year that she created one of her most famous paintings, “The Two Fridas.” Also in 1939, Kahlo visited Paris to showcase her art. While there, she became friends with other famous artists, such as Pablo Picasso. The next year, Kahlo and Rivera remarried.
Unfortunately, Kahlo died at the age of 47, though her fame increased after her death. In 2002, a movie named Frida was released, in which Salma Hayek played the titular role. A documentary also called Frida was released on Amazon Prime Video in March 2024.
Despite all her pain, Kahlo remains an inspirational woman. She leaned on art to get through. Below, check out some of Frida Kahlo's most famous and meaningful quotes on love, life, and healing.
40 Frida Kahlo Quotes
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1. “I am my own muse, the subject I know best.”
2. “I paint flowers so they will not die.”
3. “To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.”
4. “My painting carries with it a message of pain.”
5. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
6. “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
7. “I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
8. “Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.”
9. “You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.”
10. “I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”
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11. “You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.”
12. “Pain, pleasure, and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.”
13. “I leave my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.”
14. “I was a child who went about in a world of colors.”
15. “Don’t build a wall around your suffering. It may devour you from the inside.”
16. “It is terrifying to see the rich having parties day and night while thousands and thousands of people are dying of hunger.”
17. “I love you more than my own skin.”
18. “I must fight with all of my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution.”
19. “There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”
20. “Fall in love with yourself, with life, and then with whoever you want.”
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21. “I feel I've loved you forever, since you were born, and before that, when you were conceived. And sometimes, I feel like you bore me.”
22. “The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.”
23. “Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
24. “I don’t really know if my paintings are surreal or not, but I do know that they represent the frankest expression of myself.”
25. “Everything can have beauty, even the worst horror.”
26. “I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
27. “Always revolutionary. Never dead, never useless.”
28. “Rebellion against everything that chains you.”
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29. “I don’t paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
30. “I hope the exit is joyful. And I hope never to return.”
31. “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.”
32. “I want to be inside your darkest everything.”
33. “I will write to you with my eyes, always.”
34. “Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
35. “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. And now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”
36. “It is not worthwhile to leave this world without having had a little fun in life.”
37. “I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone because I am the person I know best.”
38. “The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.”
39. “Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”
40. “They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
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