Quotes from Frida Kahlo

I paint flowers so they will not die.

I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

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

There is nothing more precious than laughter

No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.

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 hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.

Feet, what do I need them forIf I have wings to fly.

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

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

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.

I love you more than my own skin.

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

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

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

I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.

Painting completed my life.

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

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

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

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.

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.