Often seen as an icon of female creativity, Frida Kahlo is one of Mexico’s greatest artists. Her work consists of mostly self-portraits after a severe injury caused by a bus accident left her struggling with health issues.
Frida was a passionate and authentic artist. Her love for Diego Riviera, her devotion to politics, as well as her frequent solitude heavily influenced her artistic creations. Here are the 20 most thought-provoking quotes on art, love, creativity and life by Frida.
Be Your Own Muse
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“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”
Art Reflects The Inner World
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“I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
You Are Not Alone
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“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.”
I Sky You
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“Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.”
Everything Changes
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“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
Art Gives Meaning To Life
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“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.”
Love Is Like A Current
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“I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty… love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.”
We’re Stronger Than We Believe
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“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
Immortalizing the Beautiful And Ephemeral Things In Life
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“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
Love Means Both Darkness And Light
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“I want to be inside your darkest everything.”
There Is a Method To Madness
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“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (…) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s – my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.”
Love Is Poetry
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“Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.”
Love Is Inexplicable
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“I would like to give you everything I never had, but not even then would you know how beautiful is it to love you.”
Walls Keep You Safe But Also Isolate You
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“Don’t build a wall around your suffering. It may devour you from the inside.”
You Deserve A Special Kind Of Love
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“You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.”
There’s Beauty To Everything
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“Everything can have beauty, even the worst horror.”
Art Is Truth
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“I don’t really know if my paintings are surreal or not, but I do know that they represent the frankest expression of myself.”
Always Loving, Loving, Loving
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“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”
Burning Love
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“Wordless, Infinite — You. You intensify everything. You are fire burning all that is left of my heart.”
You Deserve A Peaceful Love
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“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.”
More Quotes to Love
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