Discover a treasure trove of inspiration with “Insights from an Icon: 90 Powerful Frida Kahlo Quotes.” Immerse yourself in the profound wisdom and thought-provoking words of the legendary artist, Frida Kahlo. This collection of quotes captures the essence of her remarkable spirit, offering insights into her life, art, and philosophy. From empowerment to creativity, these 90 quotes will ignite your imagination and leave a lasting impact.
Frida Kahlo Quotes
1- “I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.” – Frida Kahlo
2- “My Diego. I’m no longer alone. Wings? You keep me company. You lull me to sleep and make me come alive.” – Frida Kahlo
3- “A despair which no words can describe. I’m still eager to live. I’ve started to paint again. A little picture to give to Dr. Farill on which I’m working with all my love. I feel uneasy about my painting.” – Frida Kahlo
4- “I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down… The other accident is Diego.” – Frida Kahlo
5- “My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.” – Frida Kahlo
6- “I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.” – Frida Kahlo
7- “There is nothing left everything revolves.” – Frida Kahlo
8- “They say never trust a limping dog or the tears of a woman.” – Frida Kahlo
9- “What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?” – Frida Kahlo
10- “What do you think matters most for a good marriage?” – Frida Kahlo
11- “My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.” – Frida Kahlo
12- “I just want your serious opinion.” – Frida Kahlo
13- “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
14- “Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were ‘sure’ of finding shirts.” – Frida Kahlo
15- “Through the round numbers and the colored nerves the stars are made and the worlds are sounds.” – Frida Kahlo
17- “I don’t need rescuing, Diego.”- Frida Kahlo
18- “To trap one’s self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.” – Frida Kahlo
19- “Her view of life, she told a friend, was: ‘Make love. Take a bath. Make love again.’” – Frida Kahlo
20- “I’ll wait for you. 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
21- Loyalty is important to me. Can you be loyal?” – Frida Kahlo
22- “Everyone’s opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.” – Frida Kahlo
23- “I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.” – Frida Kahlo
24- “I am nothing but a ‘small damned’ part of a revolutionary movement. Always revolutionary never dead, never useless.” – Frida Kahlo
25- “I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.” – Frida Kahlo
26- “It’s not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture. So at the emerging level, you can’t have a good survey art show without women and artists of color.” – Frida Kahlo
27- “You deserve a lover who wants you disheveled, with everything and all the reasons that wake you up in a haste and the demons that won’t let you sleep.” – Frida Kahlo
28- “There isn’t enough time there, isn’t enough nothing. There is only reality. What once was is long gone! What remains, are the transparent roots appearing transformed into an eternal fruit tree Your fruits already give scent your flowers give color blooming in the joy of wind and flower.” – Frida Kahlo
29- “… there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.” – Frida Kahlo
30- “There is nothing more precious than laughter.” – Frida Kahlo
31- “I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.” – Frida Kahlo
32- “I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of ‘madness.’” – Frida Kahlo
33- “So forgotten and so firm. Snail shells and the bride-doll, is yours too – I mean, it is you.” – Frida Kahlo
34- “Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.” – Frida Kahlo
35- “Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.” – Frida Kahlo
36- “What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.” – Frida Kahlo
37- “You didn’t understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure. I am essence. I am an idiot. I am tenacious. I am. I simply am.” – Frida Kahlo
38- “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
39- “I paint flowers so they will not die.” – Frida Kahlo
40- “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.” – Frida Kahlo
41- “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” – Frida Kahlo
42- “From you to my hands, I caress your entire body, and I am with you for a minute and I am with myself for a moment.” – Frida Kahlo
43- “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
44- “I was a child who went about in a world of colors…My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.” – Frida Kahlo
45- “I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” – Frida Kahlo
46- “Nothing compares to your hands, nothing like the green-gold of your eyes. My body is filled with you for days and days. You are the mirror of the night. The violent flash of lightning. The dampness of the earth. The hollow of your armpits is my shelter. My fingers touch your blood. All my joy is to feel life spring from your flower-fountain that mine keeps filling all the paths of my nerves which are yours.” – Frida Kahlo
47- “I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” – Frida Kahlo
48- “You didn’t understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure. I am essence. I am an idiot. I am tenacious. I am. I simply am.” – Frida Kahlo
49- “The most interesting thing about the so-called lies of Diego is that, sooner or later, the ones involved in the imaginary tale get angry, not because of the lies, but because of the truth contained in the lies, which always comes forth.” – Frida Kahlo
50- “Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.” – Frida Kahlo
51- “They are so damn ‘intellectual’ and rotten that I can’t stand them anymore…I would rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those ‘artistic’ bitches of Paris.” – Frida Kahlo
52- “The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.” – Frida Kahlo
53- “Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.” – Frida Kahlo
54- “I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty… love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.”- Frida Kahlo
55- “I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.” – Frida Kahlo
56- “I’d like to paint you, but there are no colors, because there are so many, in my confusion, the tangible form of my great love.” – Frida Kahlo
57- “At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can.”- Frida Kahlo
58- “This upper class is disgusting and I’m furious at all these rich people here, having seen thousands of people in abject squalor.” – Frida Kahlo
59- “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
60- “I don’t want anything to hurt him, nothing to bother him and rob him of the energy he needs for living, for living as he likes, for painting, seeing, loving, eating, sleeping, being by himself, being with someone…but I’d never want him to be sad. If I had good health, I would give him all of it, if I had youth, he could take it all.” – Frida Kahlo
61- “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
62- “All this anger has simply made me understand better that I love you more than my own skin, and that even though you don’t love me as much, you love me a little anyway – don’t you? If this is not true, I’ll always be hopeful that it could be, and that’s enough for me.” – Frida Kahlo
63- “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
64- “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.” – Frida Kahlo
65- “People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibitions have been a failure, because the rich don’t want to buy anything.” – Frida Kahlo
66- “My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently.” – Frida Kahlo
67- “It is terrifying to see the rich having parties day and night while thousands and thousands of people are dying of hunger.”- Frida Kahlo
68- “I warn you that in this picture I am painting of Diego there will be colors which even I am not fully acquainted with. Besides, I love Diego so much I cannot be an objective speculator of him or his life.” – Frida Kahlo
69- “They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo
70- “Don’t build a wall around your suffering. It may devour you from the inside.” – Frida Kahlo
71- “You are all the combinations of numbers of life.” – Frida Kahlo
72- “To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.” – Frida Kahlo
73- “I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.” – Frida Kahlo
74- “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
75- “I cannot speak of Diego as my husband because that term, when applied to him, is an absurdity. He never has been, nor will he ever be, anybody’s husband.” – Frida Kahlo
76- “I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”- Frida Kahlo
77- “It was worthwhile to come here only to see why Europe is rotting, why all this people – good for nothing – are the cause of all the Hitlers and Mussolinis.” – Frida Kahlo
78- “I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.” – Frida Kahlo
79- “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” – Frida Kahlo
80- “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
81- “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. The only real reason for living.” – Frida Kahlo
82- “There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.” – Frida Kahlo
83- “Why do I need feet when I have wings to fly?”- Frida Kahlo
84- “Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.” – Frida Kahlo
85- “I want to be inside your darkest everything.” – Frida Kahlo
86- “Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.” –Frida Kahlo
87- “My painting carries with it the message of pain.” – Frida Kahlo
88- “I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.” – Frida Kahlo
89- “I love you more than my own skin and even though you don’t love me the same way, you love me anyways, don’t you? And if you don’t, I’ll always have the hope that you do, and I’m satisfied with that. Love me a little. I adore you.” – Frida Kahlo
90- “I paint my own reality. 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
