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Frida Kahlo Quotes

1907–1954 Mexico

Frida Kahlo (6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter. She was married to cubist painter Diego Rivera.

Mexico
Artists
Painters

Also known as: Kahlo, Frida

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I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human.

Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly.

I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.

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

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

Since Trotsky came to Mexico I have understood his error. I was never a Trotskyist.

It's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frida Kahlo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.