Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo de Rivera, born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, was a Mexican painter known for her self-portraits...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth6 July 1907
CityCoyoacan, Mexico
CountryMexico
love happy-friday drinking
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
departure return exit
I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.
skeletons faces terrified
... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.
art work satisfaction
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.
tragedy ridiculous ridiculous-things
Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
real order profound
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.
pain struggle doorways
pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence
thinking able littles
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
pain happy-friday artist
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
dream reality portraits
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
i-love-you happy-friday skins
I love you more than my own skin.
flower dying paint
I paint flowers to prevent them from dying
artist expression painting
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
art lions surprise
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.