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
children pain thinking
My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.
love art happy-friday
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
strong heart men
You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”
strong-women art reality
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
love art happy-friday
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
ideas forever littles
Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.
self risk suffering
To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.
song storm want
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
destiny earth destroying
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
laughter light laughing
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
swim sorrow things-learned
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
white racism males
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.
sick long broken
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
looks biscuits lovers
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.