Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo, is a woman who can not be defined or restricted by words, or may be the words that can define Kahlo’s beauty or strength has not been invented yet. She spent all her life in Mexico City, yet her fame and influence travelled across the globe and she is one of the most recognizable names in the world of art. Frida Kahlo painted self-portraits that had touch of Mexican and indigenous traditions and folk art. Though, her form of art is often referred as surrealism but Kahlo always negated it by saying that she paints her own reality and not dreams.
Apart from her artwork, her marriage and relationship with another influential Mexican artist Diego Rivera and her way of explaining it through words is another intriguing part of Kahlo that fascinates us all. All her life, Frida Kahlo suffered from multiple physical illnesses that overall effected her well-being and lifestyle, yet the indomitable spirit of this brave soul make her one of the idols of modern free women.
Read these 16 Frida Kahlo quotes and know why there can never be another Frida Kahlo in human history, and why you should be more curious to know about her, her work, and her life.
#1. Feet, what do I need them for, if I have wings to fly.
#2. I was born a bitch. I was born a painter.
#4. I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
#5. 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.
#6. 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.
#7. Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
#8. 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.
#9. Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
#10. I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
#12. Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
#13. I want to be inside your darkest everything.
#14. I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
#15. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
#16. At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Words surely are powerful.
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