Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón, or better known as Frida Kahlo, was a painter of Mexican origin who was born on July 6, 1907, creating around 150 works during her lifetime, many of which were self-portraits.
He also produced paintings that can be considered part of the magical and naïve realism movement, which managed to stand out, turning it into a reference of art, especially for women.
The end of his days came on July 13, 1954, after much suffering, at the age of 47, but his art will last forever.
The best thing is that not only were his paintings full of art, in the same way his phrases and thoughts, that are compiled from letters, writings, etc.
Frida Kahlo quotes about art
Kahlo’s art can be noted as a mixture of different movements, such as the art of , whose works simultaneously reflect her Mexican identity, aspects that she clarified in sentences:
1. I paint self-portraits because I am often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Many of Frida’s works were self-portraits, and because of how they were projected, they became popular.
2. They thought it was surreal, but it wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
3. I was a girl who walked in a world of colors.
4. The most powerful art is to make pain a healing talisman.
5. I never paint dreams or nightmares.
6. Painting completed my life.
7. I paint everything that comes into my head without any other consideration.
8. The fact that I painted myself twice, I think, is nothing more than the representation of my loneliness…
9. I paint flowers so they don’t die.
10. Painting is the coolest thing there is, but doing it well is very difficult.
eleven. My painting carries with it the message of pain.
12. I don’t really know if my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the most frank expression of myself.
13. I leave you my portrait so that you have my presence every day and night that I am away from you.
14. I never knew I was a surrealist until André Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
fifteen. I lost three children and a host of other things that would have filled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this.
16. I would arrange flowers, all day. She would paint pain, love and tenderness.
17. My paintings are well painted, not with agility but with patience.
18. I would like to paint you, but there are no colors, because there are so many, in my confusion, the tangible form of my great love.
19. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.
twenty. So at the emerging level, you can’t have a good art show without women and artists of color.
Frida Kahlo quotes about love
These wise quotes from Frida Kahlo are an excellent example of her mental strength, especially due to the problems she had with her twice-husband, Diego Rivera, and in the midst of the harshest reality, love inspired her to paint self-portraits:
twenty-one. Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Despite having said this phrase, the relationship he had with Rivera was complicated, full of problems and bitterness. However, it is an excellent phrase as a reminder.
22. Fall in love with yourself, with life and then with whoever you want.
23. Love is like a scent, like a current, like rain.
24. Love me a little. I adore you.
25. The heart like a canopy bed. The heart like a canvas.
26. You didn’t understand what I am. I’m love. I am pleasure.
27. I love you more than my own skin.
28. Perhaps it is to be expected that I regret what I have suffered living with a man like Diego.
29. Diego was everything. My child, my lover, my universe.
30. He was very pleased when I arrived with the midday meal in a basket covered with flowers.
31. I need you so much that my heart hurts.
32. I feel like I always loved you, since you were born, and before, when you were conceived. And sometimes I feel like you were born to me.
33. Where you cannot love, do not delay.
3. 4. I care how much you take care of me, I talk to you how you treat me and I believe what you show me.
35. I haven’t forgotten you, the nights are long and difficult.
36. One day they asked me who I wanted to marry, and I said that I would not marry, but that I did want to have a child by Diego Rivera.
37. You also know that all my eyes see, everything touches me, from any distance, it is you.
38. I would like to give you everything I never had, but you wouldn’t even know how beautiful it is to love you.
39. Heaven, so that my wings open wide to love you without limits.
40. I have no words to tell you how much I have been suffering and knowing how much I love Diego, I must understand that these problems will never end in my life.
41. You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you are.
42. As always, when I walk away from you, I take your world and your life with me, and that’s what I can’t recover from.
43. I don’t want a half-hearted love, torn and broken in half.
44. You deserve a lover who listens to you when you sing, who supports you when you feel ashamed and respects your freedom. May it fly with you and not be afraid of falling.
Four. Five. I will never forget your presence in my entire life. You found me in pieces, and you returned me whole, complete.
46. I cannot speak of Diego as my husband because that term, applied to him, is absurd.
47. Don’t think I’m going to sleep with you just because you took me under your wing.
48. You are fire burning everything that remains of my heart.
49. Heart dripping something so strong they can smell it from the street.
fifty. You deserve a lover who makes you feel safe, who can consume this entire world if he walks hand in hand with you. Someone who believes that her hugs are a perfect match for your skin.
Frida Kahlo phrases for life
Life is a see-saw for anyone, and Frida Kahlo went through good and bad times, saying phrases that can be applied to life, talking about her own life:
51. Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything spins, everything flies and goes away.
Everything in life changes, whether quickly or slowly, the important thing is to know that sooner or later, these changes will appear, and to be ready.
52. Feet. Why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
53. Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and abandon oneself, to be light.
54. I think that by working I will forget the sorrows.
55. Life insists on being my friend and my enemy.
56. I am my own muse, the subject I know best.
57. Remember that each tick-tock is a second of life that passes and is not repeated.
58. At the end of the day, we can handle a lot more than we think we can.
59. Pain, pleasure and death are nothing more than a process for existence.
60. Don’t build a wall around your suffering. It can eat you up inside.
61. Only a mountain can know the core of another mountain.
62. What I wanted to express, more intensely and clearly, was that the reason why people needed to invent or imagine heroes and gods, is out of pure fear.
63. You deserve the best, the best because you are one of the few people in this disgusting world who is honest with yourself, and that’s the only thing that really counts.
64. Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a closet, where you were ‘sure’ to find shirts.
65. There is a skeleton that flees in terror from my desire to live.
66. I would laugh as much as I wanted at other people’s stupidity, and everyone would say: Poor thing, she’s crazy!
67. I have fought and suffered so much that I deserve something whole, intense, indestructible.
68. I am essence. I’m an idiot. I am tenacious. Am. I simply am.
69. I felt like something was in my throat, like I had swallowed the whole world.
70. Your word travels throughout space and reaches my cells that are my stars, then it goes to yours that are my light.
71. There are some who are born with a star and others with stars, and although you don’t want to believe it, I am one of the most starry…
72. Everything can have beauty, even the most horrible.
73. I want to build. But I am but an insignificant but important part of a whole of which I am not yet aware.
74. What doesn’t kill me, feeds me.
75. Physically I look like my parents. I have my mother’s eyes and my father’s body.
76. My father, Guillermo Kahlo, was a fascinating man, quite elegant when he moved, when he walked.
77. My toys were those of a child: skates, bicycles.
78. I no longer have even the slightest hope… everything moves to the rhythm that my belly supports.
79. Tragedy is the most ridiculous.
80. I’ve never had an exhibition before.
81. When I more or less recovered, the doctors did not allow me to return to school.
82. The poet I like the most is Carlos Pellicer. I also admire Pita Amor.
83. Why keep wanting him to be belligerent? Can’t.
84. I was always shy and afraid to show my things.
85. I didn’t study with Diego. I didn’t study with anyone. I just started painting.
86. The only one who has taught me how to paint is Diego…
87. I turned to myself. I sought my own help.
88. You are all the number combinations of life.
89. All of you in a space full of sounds, in shadow and in light.
90. But then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone like me who feels strange and flawed in the same way I do.
91. What would I do without the absurd and the fleeting?
92. It is so unpleasant to feel that a woman is capable of selling every bit of her convictions or feelings just for the sake of money or scandal.
Political messages from Frida Kahlo
It is normal for every person to have political beliefs or positions, and Kahlo called herself a revolutionary. In addition, she did not hesitate to speak about political issues in her country, making her voice known, saying phrases like the following:
93. The revolutionary struggle in this process is an open door to intelligence.
Although revolution is defined as radical change, it is important to do it intelligently.
94. I have to fight with all my strength to contribute the few positive things that my health allows me to the revolution.
95. People in general are scared to death by the war and all the exhibitions have been a failure…
96. It is not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture.
97. I am in better company today than I have been in the last 20 years. It’s me and a communist.
98. This upper class is disgusting and I am furious at all these rich people here, having seen thousands of people in abject misery.
99. I am disgusted by all these rotten people in Europe, and these democracies are not worth a lick.
100. Send the entire stupid society, rotten in lies, of capitalism and North American imperialism to hell… the revolution is inescapable.
Saddest Frida Kahlo quotes
When delving into Frida’s story, it is easy to notice that she had a very sad life, just as happened with , even more so in recent years, and these phrases express such sadness:
101. I’m not sick. I am broke.
It is true that Kahlo was sick for a long time, but what affected her most was being broken, in an emotional sense.
102. There have been two big accidents in my life. One was the trolleybus and the other was Diego. Diego was, by far, the worst.
103. I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
104. I hope the departure is happy and I hope I never return.
105. I’m that clumsy human, always…