20 Quotes on Art And Love by Frida Kahlo
Often seen as an icon of female creativity, Frida Kahlo is one of Mexico’s greatest artists. Her work consists of mostly self-portraits after a severe injury caused by a bus accident left her struggling with health issues.
Frida was a passionate and authentic artist. Her love for Diego Riviera, her devotion to politics, as well as her frequent solitude heavily influenced her artistic creations. Here are the 20 most thought-provoking quotes on art, love, creativity and life by Frida.
Be Your Own Muse
“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”
Art Reflects The Inner World
“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
You Are Not Alone
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world 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. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”
I Sky You
“Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.”
Everything Changes
“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
Art Gives Meaning To Life
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.”
Love Is Like A Current
“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.”
We’re Stronger Than We Believe
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
Immortalizing the Beautiful And Ephemeral Things In Life
“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
Love Means Both Darkness And Light
“I want to be inside your darkest everything.”
There Is a Method To Madness
“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (…) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. 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 “reality”.”
Love Is Poetry
“Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.”
Love Is Inexplicable
“I would like to give you everything I never had, but not even then would you know how beautiful is it to love you.”
Walls Keep You Safe But Also Isolate You
“Don’t build a wall around your suffering. It may devour you from the inside.”
You Deserve A Special Kind Of Love
“You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.”
There’s Beauty To Everything
“Everything can have beauty, even the worst horror.”
Art Is Truth
“I don’t really know if my paintings are surreal or not, but I do know that they represent the frankest expression of myself.”
Always Loving, Loving, Loving
“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”
Burning Love
“Wordless, Infinite — You. You intensify everything. You are fire burning all that is left of my heart.”
You Deserve A Peaceful Love
“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.”
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