119 Frida Kahlo Quotes about Art and Suffering

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Do you sometimes find yourself marveling at the intensely personal artworks of Frida Kahlo? If you want to learn more about the artist and what inspired her magnificent works, the following selection of inspirational Frida Kahlo quotes is just right for you. Enjoy reading! And for even more quotes, be sure not to miss our collection of inspirational art quotes.

Frida Kahlo’s impressive paintings are exceptionally imaginative and often depict intimate insights of herself. Many of her introspective works express her struggles in life such as her health problems, injuries from an accident, and her tense marriage.

“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
Frida Kahlo

Often described as one of Mexico’s greatest artists, Kahlo started painting while she was recovering from a near-fatal bus accident in 1925. The tragic collision injured her seriously and caused her both physical and psychological pain.

Throughout her artwork, Frida Kahlo visually depicts her physical pain and the emotional suffering it was causing her. For instance, a signature tear symbolizes her fight with the psychological pain caused by her illness and bus accident.

Frida Kahlo quotes

These Frida Kahlo quote are full of insights about the woman behind the popular artworks

In many of her paintings, Frida Kahlo explores subjects such as suffering, death, and loss. As she was the first Mexican woman to investigate such topics, she encouraged other women to openly express their frustrations and pains.

119 Frida Kahlo Quotes about Art and Suffering

Frida Kahlo became a role model for many female artists and encouraged them to use art as a means of expressing their internal landscape. Kahlo’s coverage of an artist becomes evident when considering that women who openly expressed their deepest emotions were often considered maniacal.

After her death in 1954, Frida Kahlo’s artworks continued growing in popularity. Especially in the 1970s, interest in her work increased because of the feminist movement that drew attention to her as an artist.

Here’s our selection of the finest Frida Kahlo quotes

1.

“I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
Frida Kahlo

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2.

“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
Frida Kahlo

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3.

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
Frida Kahlo

4.

“My painting carries with it the message of pain.”
Frida Kahlo

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5.

“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
Frida Kahlo

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6.

“I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.”
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7.

“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
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8.

“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.”
Frida Kahlo

9.

“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

10.

“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

11.

“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
Frida Kahlo

12.

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

13.

“Until always and forever. Now in 1944. After all, the hours lived through. The vectors continue in their original direction. Nothing stops them. With no more knowledge than live emotion. With no other wish than to go on until they meet. Slowly. With great unease, but with the certainty that all is guided by the ‘golden section.’ There is cellular arrangement. There is movement. There is light. All centers are the same. Folly doesn’t exist. We are the same as we were and as we will be. Not counting on idiotic destiny.”
Frida Kahlo

14.

“I missed a lot of school. I do not remember a lot, but I continued jumping, only not with the right leg anymore. I developed a horrible complex, and I hide my leg. I wore thick wool socks onto the knee, with bandages underneath. This happened when I was seven years old, and my papa and my mama began to spoil me a lot and to love me more. The foot leaned to the side, and I limped a little. This was during the period when I had my imaginary friend.”
Frida Kahlo

15.

“I returned to school, but I felt very sore and had little strength. I took my paintings to Diego, and he liked them a lot, most of all the self-portrait. But of the rest, he told me that I was influenced by Doctor Atl and by Montenegro, and that I should try to paint whatever I wanted without being influenced by anyone else. That impressed me a lot, and I began to paint that I believed in.”
Frida Kahlo

16.

“Then the friendship and almost courtship with Diego began. I would go to see him paint in the afternoon, and afterward, he would take me home by bus or in a Fordcito – a little Ford that he had – and he would kiss me.”
Frida Kahlo

17.

“I thought of you a lot and never forget your wonderful hands and the color of your eyes.”
Frida Kahlo

18.

“when I had my imaginary friend I would look out of the small glass panes of the window and fill them with steam. Then, I would draw a little window and go out through it. Opposite our house, there was a milk store that was named Pinzon, and I would travel from the little window through the “o” in Pinzon, and from there into the center of the earth, where I had my friend, and we would dance and play… I do not remember my friend’s house, and she had no name. She was like me in age. She had no face. The truth is, I do not remember if she had a face or not, and she was very lively. I could not describe her.”
Frida Kahlo

19.

“I was fascinated by Papa’s studio. I would help him wash, crop and press photos and afterward sell them, when we were poor. When I was in Prepa, [following college]they would send me to help my father when he had epileptic attacks. After school, I would go to his office, which was downtown, and accompany him everywhere. I would also do my homework there, and he would help me. I remember the fear that Papa’s epileptic attacks make me feel. Christina and I would hide under the bed.”
Frida Kahlo

20.

“A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was was a game for me. If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning elucidated the earth. Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice; but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds.”
Frida Kahlo

21.

“One Sunday, Diego came to the house to see my paintings and critiqued all of them in a very clear manner, and he told me all the possibilities he saw in them. Then I painted two or three things, which are around the house, that to me seem very influenced by him.”
Frida Kahlo

22.

“Papa painted small landscapes by the river in Coyoacán, and copied sentimental paintings in watercolor and oil. Afterward, he gave me a little box of paints that belonged to him. Ángel Salas gave me a small book that told me how to prepare the canvases, and I made them smooth, smooth. The courtship with Gómez Arias lasted from 1922 until 1925, when the bus crushed us both. Gómez Arias brought me books on painting and painters from Europe. These were the first books on art that fell into my hands.”
Frida Kahlo

23.

“I was already interested in painting when I was about twelve. I was about fifteen when I began to draw. I have the first drawing, a self-portrait that I did in 1925.”
Frida Kahlo

24.

“I began to paint after the accident, I made the self-portrait with the clouds and the portraits. All, more or less, are from the same period. With the last ones, I was wearing the cast corset. I would get out of bed and paint at night.
Frida Kahlo

25.

“I am not sick. I am broken.”
Frida Kahlo

26.

“His [Diego Rivera’s] supposed mythomania is in direct relation to his tremendous imagination. That is to say, he is as much of a liar as the poets or as the children who have not yet been turned into idiots by school or mothers. I have heard him tell all kinds of lies: from the most innocent, to the most complicated stories about people whom his imagination combined in a fantastic situation or actions, always with a great sense of humor and a marvelous critical sense; but I have never heard him say a single stupid or banal lie.”
Frida Kahlo

27.

“Sometimes Diego himself would pass by, and we would tease him. One day they asked me who I wanted to marry, and I said I would not marry, but I did want to have a child by Diego Rivera.”
Frida Kahlo

28.

“Lying, or playing at lying, he unmasks many people, he learns the interior mechanism of others, who are much more ingenuously liars than he, and the most curious thing about the supposed lies of Diego, is that in the long and short of it, those who are involved in the imaginary combination become angry, not because of the lie, but because of the truth contained in the lie, that always comes to the surface.”
Frida Kahlo

29.

“I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.”
Frida Kahlo

30.

“Since Trotsky came to Mexico I have understood his error. I was never a Trotskyist.”
Frida Kahlo

31.

“I am a poor little deer.”
Frida Kahlo

32.

“It was worthwhile to come here only to see why Europe is rottening, why all these people – good for nothing – are the cause of all the Hitlers and Mussolinis.”
Frida Kahlo

33.

“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
Frida Kahlo

34.

“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.”
Frida Kahlo

35.

“I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.”
Frida Kahlo

36.

“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

37.

“I want to be inside your darkest everything.”
Frida Kahlo

38.

“I’ll be in Detroit two more weeks. I would like to tell you everything that happened to me since the last time we saw each other, but most of them are sad and you mustn’t know sad things now. After all, I shouldn’t complain because I have been happy in many ways though.”
Frida Kahlo

39.

“We moved from the house on Reforma to Coyoacán, and that had an enormous influence on me. How we painted the house and the Mexican furniture, all that influenced my painting a lot. While still on Reforma, I painted a self-portrait that is owned by Morillo Safa. Once in Coyoacán I began to make paintings with backgrounds and Mexican things in them. I painted the portraits of Hale’s sister… and the one of Diego, which I did not finish. Those three paintings, who knows where they are. Mirillo Safa has the third self-portrait, showing me bald and sitting in a cane chair.
Frida Kahlo

40.

“I was really ugly and had an admiration complex for Christi [her sister]. They sent us to the house of senora Maria a Campos for instruction. I asked about the mysteries of the Bible, and I think I behaved badly so they sent me to a retreat. It was the usual thing: “to dedicate oneself more to God”… it was a house where one spent about fifteen days… I asked the priest so many questions […] that they threw me out.”
Frida Kahlo

41.

“I first met Diego while he was painting the amphitheater [at the Escuela National Preparatoria, where Rivera was painting the mural ‘La Créación’, 1922 -1923]and I would really cherish going to see him paint.”
Frida Kahlo

42.

“Diego is good to me, and you can’t imagine how happy he has been working on the frescoes here. I have been painting a little too and that helped.”
Frida Kahlo

43.

“José Clemente Orozco and I would travel on the same trolley from Coyoacán to Mexico City, and I would carry his papers. We became pals, and I invited him to the house. I had painted four or five things when he visited, and he gave me a hug and said I had a lot of talent, and he chatted on about the horrors of Diego.”
Frida Kahlo

44.

“In 1929, I joined the Communist Party, I got married to Diego, and I had my first abortion. In that year I painted a portrait of Cristina Moya… and other drawings that Morillo Safa owns. The unfinished portrait of my first abortion was my first Surrealist painting but not completely.”
Frida Kahlo

45.

“I remember the first time I was sick. I had gone to play with a boy, Luis Léon, and on the patio, he threw a wooden log at my foot, and this was the pretext they used at home when my leg began to grow thin. I remember they said that it was a white tumor or paralysis.”
Frida Kahlo

46.

“High society here turns me off and I feel a bit of rage against all these rich guys here, since I have seen thousands of people in the most terrible misery without anything to eat and with no place to sleep, that is what has most impressed me here, it is terrifying to see the rich having parties day and night while thousands and thousands of people are dying of hunger.”
Frida Kahlo

47.

“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of ‘madness.’„
Frida Kahlo

48.

“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the train the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”
Frida Kahlo

49.

“I am nauseated by all these rotten people in Europe.”
Frida Kahlo

50.

“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”
Frida Kahlo

51.

“To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.”
Frida Kahlo

52.

“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

53.

“What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.”
Frida Kahlo

54.

“I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.”
Frida Kahlo

55.

“There is nothing more precious than laughter”
Frida Kahlo

56.

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

57.

“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”
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58.

“Make love. Take a bath. Make love again.”
Frida Kahlo when asked about her view of life

59.

“My Diego: Mirror of the night Your eyes green swords inside my flesh. waves between our hands. All of you in a space full of sounds — in the shade and in the light. You were called AUXOCHROME the one who captures color. I CHROMOPHORE — the one who gives color. You are all the combinations of numbers. Life. My wish is to understand lines form shades movement. You fulfill and I receive. Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.”
Frida Kahlo

60.

“I don’t know how to write love letters.”
Frida Kahlo

61.

“The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise, it’s like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.”
Frida Kahlo

62.

“They are so damn ‘intellectual’ and rotten that I can’t stand them anymore… I rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those [artists]of Paris.”
Frida Kahlo

63.

“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”
Frida Kahlo

64.

“People, in general, are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich – don’t want to buy anything”
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65.

“Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.”
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66.

“You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress of fabrics, the color of colors, the wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells, the war and the sun, everything experienced in the minutes of the non-clocks and the non-calendars and the empty non-glances, is him.”
Frida Kahlo

67.

“Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.”
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68.

“Since you wrote to me, on that clear, distant day, I have wanted to explain to you, that I can’t get away from the days, or return in time to that other time. I have not forgotten you — the nights are long and difficult. The water. The ship and the dock and the parting which made you appear so small, to my eyes, framed in that round porthole, and you gazing at me so as to keep me in your heart. Everything is untouched. Later, came the days, new of you. Today, I wish my sun could touch you. I tell you, your eyeball is my eyeball, the puppet characters all arranged in their large glass room, belong to us both.”
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69.

“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”
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70.

“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.”
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71.

“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.”
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72.

“I love you more than my own skin.”
Frida Kahlo

73.

“Painting completed my life.”
Frida Kahlo

74.

“Diego. Truth is, so great, that I wouldn’t like to speak, or sleep, or listen, or love. To feel myself trapped, with no fear of blood, outside time and magic, within your own fear, and your great anguish, and within the very beating of your heart. All this madness, if I asked it of you, I know, in your silence, there would be only confusion. I ask you for violence, in the nonsense, and you, you give me grace, your light, and your warmth. I’d like to paint you, but there are no colors, because there are so many, in my confusion, the tangible form of my great love.”
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75.

“I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.”
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76.

“Yours is the huipil with magenta ribbons. Mine the ancient squares of your Paris, above all, the magnificent.”
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77.

“Today Diego kissed me. Every moment, he is my child. My newborn babe, every little while, every day, of my own self.”
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78.

“My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.”
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79.

“I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.”
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80.

“Perhaps it is expected that I should lament about how I have suffered living with a man like Diego. But I do not think that the banks of a river suffer because they let the river flow, nor does the earth suffer because of the rains, nor does the atom suffer for letting its energy escape. To my way of thinking, everything has its natural compensation.”
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81.

“I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”
Frida Kahlo

82.

“I was a child who went about in a world of colors… My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.”
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83.

“The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.”
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84.

“Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.”
Frida Kahlo

85.

“I have not forgotten you — the nights are long and difficult. You too know that all my eyes see, all touch with myself, from any distance, is you. The caress of fabrics, the color of colors, the wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells, the war and the sun, everything experienced in the minutes of the non-clocks and the non-calendars and the empty non-glances, is you. You felt it, that’s why you let that ship take me away from Le Havre where you never said good-bye to me. I will write to you with my eyes, always. For you is all.”
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86.

“But the color of your skin, of your eyes and your hair changes with the winds in Mexico. The death of the old man [crossed out]pained us so much that [crossed out]we talked and spent that day together, [crossed out]You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego.”
Frida Kahlo

87.

“So forgotten and so firm. Snail shells and the bride-doll, is yours too – I mean, it is you.”
Frida Kahlo

88.

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”
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89.

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

90.

“Wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells, the war and the sun, everything experienced in the minutes of the non-clocks and the non-calendars and the empty non-glances, is him. You felt it, that’s why you let that ship take me away from Le Havre where you never said good-bye to me. I will write to you with my eyes, always.”
Frida Kahlo

91.

“Her dress, is the same one she wouldn’t take off on the day of the wedding to no-one, when we found her half-asleep on the dirty sidewalk of some street.”
Frida Kahlo

92.

“Through the round numbers and the colored nerves the stars are made and the worlds are sounds.”
Frida Kahlo

93.

“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.”
Frida Kahlo

94.

“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.”
Frida Kahlo

95.

“No one is more than a function – or part of a total function. Life goes by, and sets paths, which are not traveled in vain. But no one can stop “freely” to play by the wayside, because he will delay or upset the general atomic journey. From this comes discontent From this comes despair and unhappiness. We all would like to be the sum total and not one of the numerical elements. Changes and struggles disconcert us, terrify us.”
Frida Kahlo

96.

“We search for calm and “peace” because we foresee the death that we die every second. Opposites unite and nothing new or arrhythmic is discovered. We take refuge in, we take flight into irrationality, magic, abnormality, in fear of the extraordinary beauty of the truth.”
Frida Kahlo

97.

“We like being sick to protect ourselves. Someone – something – always protects us from the truth – Our own ignorance and fear. Fear of everything – fear of knowing that we are no more than vectors direction construction and destruction to be alive.”
Frida Kahlo

98.

“Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing “man” has but I’m sure that animals suffer, and yet they do not exhibit their “pain” in “theatres” neither open nor “closed” (their “homes”). and their pain is more real than any image that any man can “perform”.”
Frida Kahlo

99.

“Pain, pleasure, and death are no more than a process for existence, the revolutionary struggle. In this process is a doorway open to intelligence.”
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100.

“I’ve been sick for a year now. Seven operations on my spinal column. Doctor Farill saved me. He brought me back the joy of life. I am still in the wheelchair, and I don’t know if I’ll be able to walk again soon. I have a plaster corset even though it is a frightful nuisance, it helps my spine. I don’t feel any pain. Only this … bloody tiredness, and naturally, quite often, despair.”
Frida Kahlo

101.

“I’ll wait for you. You responded to a sense with your voice and I’m full of you, waiting for your words which will make me grow and will enrich me.”
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102.

“I’m convinced of my disagreement with the counterrevolution – imperialism – fascism – religions – stupidity – capitalism – and the whole gamut of bourgeois tricks. I wish to cooperate with the Revolution in transforming the world into a classless one so that we can attain a better rhythm for the oppressed classes.”
Frida Kahlo

103.

“I entered and descended impetuously to the entrails of the earth, where “my imaginary friend” always waited for me. I don’t remember her appearance or her color. But I do remember her joyfulness – she laughed a lot. Soundlessly. She was agile. and danced as if she were weightless. I followed her in every movement and while she danced, I told her my secret problems. Which ones? I can’t remember.”
Frida Kahlo

104.

“A despair which no words can describe. I’m still eager to live. I’ve started to paint again. A little picture to give to Dr. Farill on which I’m working with all my love. I feel uneasy about my painting. .”
Frida Kahlo

105.

“It has been 34 years since I lived that magical friendship and every time I remember it, it comes alive and grows more and more inside my world.”
Frida Kahlo

106.

“I have never seen tenderness as great as Diego has and gives when his hands and his beautiful eyes touch Mexican Indian sculpture.”
Frida Kahlo

107.

“I am nothing but a “small damned” part of a revolutionary movement. Always revolutionary never dead, never useles.”
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108.

“In all my life I have had 22 surgical interventions – Dr. Juanito Farill, who I consider to be a true man of science, and also a heroic being because he has spent his entire life saving the lives of the ill when he himself is ill.”
Frida Kahlo

109.

“There is nothing left everything revolves.”
Frida Kahlo

110.

“My Diego. I’m no longer alone. Wings? You keep me company. You lull me to sleep and make me come alive. .”
Frida Kahlo

111.

“You left us, Chabela Villasenor. But your voice, your electricity, your enormous talent, your poetry, your light, your mystery, all that remains of you – is still alive.”
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112.

“It is six o’clock in the morning and the turkeys are singing, the warmth of human tenderness. Companionable solitude. Never, in all my life will I forget your presence. You took me to you when I was shattered and you restored me to a complete whole. In this small world, where shall I turn my eyes? It’s deep immense!”
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113.

“There isn’t enough time there, isn’t enough nothing. There is only reality. What once was is long gone! What remains, are the transparent roots appearing transformed into an eternal fruit tree Your fruits already give scent your flowers give color blooming in the joy of wind and flower.”
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114.

“Name of Diego. Name of love. Don’t let the tree get thirsty it loves you so much. It treasured your seed, it crystallized your life at six in the morning.”
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115.

“Quietly, the grief, loudly the pain. The accumulated poison love faded away. Mine was a strange world of criminal silences of strangers’ watchful eyes misreading the evil. Darkness in the daytime, I didn’t live the nights.”
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116.

“Years. Waiting with anguish hidden away, my spine broken, and the immense glance, footless through the vast path… Carrying on my life enclosed in steel.”
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117.

“If only, I had his caresses upon me. As the air touches the earth – the reality of his person, would make me merrier, it would take me away from the feeling which fills me with gray. Nothing inside me would be so deep, so final. But, how can I explain to him my need for tenderness! My loneliness over the years. My structure displeases because of its lack of harmony, its unfitness. I think it would be better for me to go, to go and not to run away. If it were all over within an instant.”
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118.

“It is certain that they are going to amputate my right leg. Details I don’t know much but the opinions are very reliable. Dr. Luis Mendes and Dr. Juan Farill. I’m very very, worried, but at the same time, I feel it would be a relief. In the hope that when I walk again I’ll give what remains of my courage to Diego. Everything for Diego.”
Frida Kahlo

119.

“They amputated my leg 6 months ago It seemed to me centuries of torture and at times I nearly went crazy. I still feel like committing suicide Diego prevents me from doing it in the vain belief that maybe he will need me. He has told me so and I believe him. But I have never suffered so much in my life. I’ll wait a while.”
Frida Kahlo

We hope you enjoyed this collection of Frida Kahlo quotes.

You may have noticed that Kahlo did not only explore the subject of a melancholic nature with her artwork but also with the words she put to paper. As such, many of her quotes help to better understand the motives behind artworks.

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Steve is the founder of Planet of Success, the #1 choice when it comes to motivation, self-growth and empowerment. This world does not need followers. What it needs is people who stand in their own sovereignty. Join us in the quest to live life to the fullest!

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