"I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return."
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Frida Kahlo quotes (page 3 of 4)
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"My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours."
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"They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."
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"What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?"
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"To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves."
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"I paint my own reality."
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"I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world."
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"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality."
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"I paint flowers to prevent them from dying"
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"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling."
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"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."
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"Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing."
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"No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming."
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"Painting completed my life."
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"... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live."
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"Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself."
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"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to."
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"People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibitions have been a failure, because the rich bitches don't want to buy anything."
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"I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was."
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"I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego."
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