Quotes from Frida Kahlo

no te mortifiques por tu reacción a su falta de respeto, una relación relación no termina por falta de amor, termina por falta de respeto, comunicación, espacio, lealtad y sobre todo por exceso de orgullo

también me mentía a mi misma, al decir que mi rechazo eran miedo a volver a sentir eso por alguien más; eran las tontas esperanzas de verte volver, tu que siempre tuviste las palabras para sanarme o romperme...

ha pasado tanto tiempo, pero se que hay un ultimo día para todo...ese día podría ser hoy. Ni de amores se muere, ni de recuerdos se vive

Sabes, mi cielo, que llueves en mí y yo, como la tierra, te recibo.

Las crepas ya intenté hacerlas, pero me salen unas vomitadas de borracho. Pues, al voltearlas, se me hacen pelota y me quedan crudas. Es inútil que quiera dedicarme a cocinera, pues lo hago demasiado mal y lo echo a perder todo. Así es que mejor me esperaré para cuando llegue a México tu me enseñes

A veces quisiera estar dentro de tu cabeza, para para saber que es lo que piensas, sientes

Se pueden inventar verbos? Quiero decirte uno: Yo te cielo, así mis alas se extienden enormes para amarte sin medida

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

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

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

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

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

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.

I paint my own reality.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

I am my own muse, the subject I know best.

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.

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.