Frida Kahlo Quotes on Art

Frida Kahlo was a famous Mexican painter. She is best known for her naive, raw and revealing self-portrait paintings that depicted her struggles in life. Famous Frida Kahlo paintings include “Frieda and Diego Rivera”, “Henry Ford Hospital”, “What the Water Gave Me”, “The Two Fridas”, “The Broken Column”, “Viva la Vida, Watermelons”, “The Wounded Deer”, “The Suicide of Dorothy Hale”, “Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair”, “Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird”, “Thinking About Death” and “Two Nudes in a Forest”.

Mini biography: Born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón on the 6th of July, 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico. Her mother was Matilde Calderon y Gonzalez and her father Guillermo Kahlo (Carl Wilhelm Kahlo) was born in Germany. Kahlo married the famous Mexican communist painter Diego Rivera in 1929 and they were divorced in 1939. They then remarried in 1940. The artist died on the 13th of July, 1954 in Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico at the age of 47.

List of Famous Frida Kahlo Art Quotes

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. Frida Kahlo

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. Frida Kahlo

Feet, what do I need them for, If I have wings to fly? Frida Kahlo

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

Really I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself. Frida Kahlo

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

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

I would like to tell you every thing that happened to me since the last time we saw each other, but most of them are sad and you mustn’t know sad things now. After all I shouldn’t complain because I have been happy in many ways though. Diego is good to me, and you can’t imagine how happy he has been working on the frescoes here. I have been painting a little too and that helped. Frida Kahlo

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

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

They amputated my leg six months ago, they have given me centuries of torture and at moments I almost lost my reason. I keep on wanting to kill myself. Diego is what keeps me from it, through my vain idea that he would miss me. Frida Kahlo

A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was was a game for me. If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning elucidated the earth. Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice; but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds. Frida Kahlo

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

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

His supposed mythomania is in direct relation to his tremendous imagination. That is to say, he is as much of a liar as the poets or as the children who have not yet been turned into idiots by school or mothers. I have heard him tell all kinds of lies: from the most innocent, to the most complicated stories about people whom his imagination combined in a fantastic situation or actions, always with a great sense of humor and a marvelous critical sense; but I have never heard him say a single stupid or banal lie. Frida Kahlo

In 1929, I joined the Communist Party, I got married to Diego, and I had my first abortion. Frida Kahlo

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