Frida Kahlo

“Perhaps it is expected that I should lament about how I have suffered living with a man like Diego.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“My Diego. I’m no longer alone. Wings? You keep me company.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“You deserve a lover who makes you feel safe, who can consume this world whole if he walks hand in hand with you; someone who believes that his embraces are a perfect match with your skin.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I don’t look at shapes. the paper love. wars. tangled hair. pitchers. claws. submerged spiders. lives in alcohol. children are the days and here it stopped.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were ‘sure’ of finding shirts.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Alone with my great happiness with the very vivid memory of the little girl.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I believe that by working I will forget the sorrows and I will be able to be a little happier…” ~ Frida Kahlo

“In all my life I have had 22 surgical interventions.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“All of you in a space full of sounds — in the shade and in the light.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“The hours without you is nothing. Everything without you seems horrible to me. I am in love with you more than ever and at each moment more and more.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I would like to give you everything I never had, but not even then would you know how beautiful is it to love you.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I have never seen tenderness as great as Diego has and gives when his hands and his beautiful eyes touch Mexican Indian sculpture.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I have no words to tell you how much I been suffering and knowing how much I love Diego you must understand that these troubles will never end in my life.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“But then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“At that instant still full of sensations, my hands are sunk in oranges, and my body feels surrounded by your arms.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“You responded to a sense with your voice and I’m full of you, waiting for your words which will make me grow and will enrich me.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“What would I do without the absurd and the fleeting?” ~ Frida Kahlo

“My paintings carries within it the message of pain… Painting completed my life. I lost three children… Painting substituted for all of this. I believe that work is the best thing.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I am still in the wheelchair, and I don’t know if I’ll be able to walk again soon.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“There isn’t enough time there isn’t enough nothing.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I am essence. I am an idiot. I am tenacious. I am. I simply am.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Only this … bloody tiredness, and naturally, quite often, despair.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“The enormous spine is the basis of all human structure.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“We all would like to be the sum total and not one of the numerical elements.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“For my Diego the silent life giver of worlds, what is most important is the non-illusion.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I have not forgotten you — the nights are long and difficult.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I hope the exit is joyful. And I hope never to return.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Life goes by, and sets paths, which are not traveled in vain.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“My skirts with their lace flounces and the antique blouse I always wore xxxxxxxxx paint the absent portrait of only one person.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“You too know that all my eyes see, all touch with myself, from any distance, is you.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Nobody will ever know how much I love Diego. I don’t want anything to hurt him.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“A despair which no words can describe.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I believe that soon this state of unspeakable troubles will pass and someday I will be able to be the same as I was before.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Don’t build a wall around your suffering. It may devour you from the inside.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I have had in my life who have taken care of me so marvelously well.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“As always, when I walk away from you, I carry your world and your life with me, and that’s what I can’t recover from.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I ask you for violence, in the nonsense, and you, you give me grace, your light and your warmth.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I penetrate the sex of the whole earth, her heat chars me and my entire body is rubbed by the freshness of the tender leaves.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“The vectors continue in their original direction. Nothing stops them. With no more knowledge than live emotion.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“My paintings are well painted, not with speed but with patience… I think that at least they will interest a few people.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Here I am, for them to live.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“You deserve the best, the very best because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“My will is strong My will remains.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“You lull me to sleep and make me come alive.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Nothing compares to your hands nothing like the green-gold of your eyes. My body is filled with you for days and days.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Nobody is separate from anybody else – Nobody fights for himself.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Don’t let the tree get thirsty, you are its sun, it treasured your seed “Diego” is the name of love.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“So at the emerging level, you can’t have a good survey art show without women and artists of color.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I didn’t live the NIGHTS. You are killing yourself!!” ~ Frida Kahlo

“The green miracle of the landscape of my body becomes in you the whole of nature.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“We take refuge in, we take flight into irrationality, magic, abnormality, in fear of the extraordinary beauty of the truth of matter and dialectics, of whatever is healthy and strong – we like being sick to protect ourselves.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Life insists on being my friend and my enemy.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“You deserve a lover who listens when you sing, who supports you when you feel shame and respects your freedom; who flies with you and isn’t afraid to fall.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Thanks to my Diego the love of my life thanks to the Doctors.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I have the taste of almonds from your lips in my mouth.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“It gave him (Diego) great pleasure when I arrived with the midday meal in a basket covered with flowers.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Don’t let the tree get thirsty it loves you so much.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Fall in love with yourself, with life, and then with whoever you want.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I’m still eager to live. I’ve started to paint again.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“The fact that I painted myself twice, I think, is nothing but the representation of my loneliness…” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I’m convinced of my disagreement with the counterrevolution – imperialism – fascism – religions – stupidity – capitalism – and the whole gamut of bourgeois tricks.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Why do I call him my Diego? He never was or will be mine. He belongs to himself.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“The day, or the hour, or the minute, that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s – My madness would not be an escape from ‘work’.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Heart leaking something so string they can smell it from the street.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I am well again — I’ve made a promise and I’ll keep it never to turn back.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Remember that every tick-tock is a second of life that goes by and doesn’t repeat itself.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“The only one who has taught me painting is Diego…” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Like the blood that runs when they kill a deer.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Quietly, the grief loudly the pain. the accumulated poison love faded away.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Don’t think I am going to sleep with you just because you took me under your wing.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I admit, my great guilt as great as pain it was an enormous exit which my love came through.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I don’t know what my mocking dream thinks.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“All of you in a space full of sounds – in the shade and in the light.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“There is always something new.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“My subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me…” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“All my joy is to feel life spring from your flower-fountain that mine keeps to fill all the paths of my nerves which are yours.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“What I wanted to express, more intensely and clearly was that the reason people needed to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Why did the others support me with their labor?” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Years. Waiting with anguish hidden away, my spine broken, and the immense glance, footless through the vast path … Carrying on my life enclosed in steel.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I have stolen you and I leave weeping.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I wanted to make a series of pictures of every year of my life.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“For the first time in my life my painting is trying to help in the line set down by the Party.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I cannot speak of Diego as my husband because that term, when applied to him, is an absurdity.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“You are all the combinations of numbers of life.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I have to fight with all my strength to contribute the few positive things my health allows me to the revolution”

“Pain, pleasure, and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I have never suffered so much in my life.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I still feel like committing suicide Diego prevents me from doing it in the vain belief that maybe he will need me.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I love you more than my own skin.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“There are some who will never forget you.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I would not wish to harbor the slightest hope, everything moves to the beat of what’s enclosed in the belly.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Never, in all my life will I forget your presence.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“You left us, Chabela Villasenor But your voice your electricity your enormous talent your poetry your light your mystery your Olinka all that remains of you – is still alive.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“What remains, are the transparent roots appearing transformed into an eternal fruit tree.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Everything is untouched. Later, came the days, new of you. Today, I wish my sun could touch you.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I must have been six years old when I had the intense experience of an imaginary friendship with a little girl … roughly my own age.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I do not want a half-hearted love, torn and cut in half.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I wish I were dead! I don’t know why I have to go living like this.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“There is nothing to do but put up with it. I have a cat’s luck.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“There is nothing absolute Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves – everything flies and goes away.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I have struggled and suffered so much that I deserve something whole, intense, indestructible.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“Never in all my life will I forget your presence. You found me torn to pieces, and you sent me back whole, complete.” ~ Frida Kahlo

“I pressed you against my breast and the prodigy of your form penetrated all my blood through the tips of my fingers.” ~ Frida Kahlo