Best of Frida Kahlo Quotes

Frida Kahlo de Rivera was an artist from Mexico, she usually painted self-portraits and her other portraits used to be inspired by artefacts of Mexico and nature.

When you look at her art today, you realize this artist born in 1907 was so much ahead of her time. Her works never fail to inspire the youth even today.  She has been described as a magical surrealist or a surrealist.

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The List of Frida Kahlo Quotes Begins

1.      “There is nothing more precious than laughter”

2.      “I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”

3.      “pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence”

4. “Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”
5. “I paint flowers so they will not die.”
6. “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
7. “Feet, what do I need them for

If I have wings to fly.”

8. “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”

9. “Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
10. “I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”
11. “I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”

12. “You deserve a lover who wants you disheveled, with everything and all the reasons that wake you up in a haste and the demons that won’t let you sleep.

You deserve a lover who makes you feel safe, who can consume this world whole if he walks hand in hand with you; someone who believes that his embraces are a perfect match with your skin.

You deserve a lover who wants to dance with you, who goes to paradise every time he looks into your eyes and never gets tired of studying your expressions.

You deserve a lover who listens when you sing, who supports you when you feel shame and respects your freedom; who flies with you and isn’t afraid to fall.

You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.”

13. “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.”
14. “The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become ‘somebody,’ and frankly, I don’t have the least ambition to become anybody.”
15. “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.”

CONCLUSION

“I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.” Kahl0, through her art, questioned the realities postcolonialism, gender, class and race in Mexican society. Today she is regarded as an icon for Chicanos, the LGBTQ movement, and the feminist movement.

References: GoodReads