+30 Frida Kahlo phrases that you cannot miss

Frida Khalo was a Mexican recognized for her paintings, which expressed her life and suffering; these works were also influenced by her husband, Diego Rivera. Although her works were of great interest to important figures of the time and the general public, it was not until her death that the artist's works were truly recognized.

Next we want to show you some of the Frida Kahlo phrases most prominent, which deal with various topics such as love, suffering, life, among others. We hope you enjoy them, as well as the images we have created for you.

The 30 best phrases of Frida Kahlo

  • "Tree of hope, stand firm", a phrase taken from the title of his painting painted in May 1927.
  • “Can you make up verbs? I want to tell you one: I love you. "
  • "I don't know if my paintings are surrealist or not, but what I am sure of is that they are the most frank expression of my being."
  • "Beauty and ugliness are a mirage because others end up seeing us."
  • "I paint myself, because I am the one I know best."
  • "Sometimes I prefer to talk to workers and bricklayers than to those stupid people who call themselves cultured people."
  • "I would like to give you everything that you would never have had, and even then you would not know how wonderful it is to be able to love you."
  • "Doctor, if you let me have this tequila, I promise not to drink at my funeral."
  • “The most powerful art in life is to make pain a talisman that heals. A butterfly is reborn, blooming in a festival of colors! "
  • "Walling off your own suffering is risking being devoured from the inside."

  • "I drink to forget, but now ... I don't remember what."
  • "Life insists on being my friend and fate my enemy."
  • “Perhaps you expect to hear from me lamentations of 'how much you suffer' living with a man like Diego. But I don't think the banks of a river suffer from letting it flow ... "
  • "I tried to drown my pains, but they learned to swim."
  • Referring to his impending death at the end of his days.
  • "I hope the departure is happy, and I hope I never come back"
  • "Where you cannot love, do not delay."
  • "I paint self-portraits because I'm alone a lot."
  • “Never in all my life will I forget your presence. You welcomed me shattered and gave me back whole, whole. "
  • "Man is master of his destiny and his destiny is the earth and he himself is destroying it until he has no destiny."
  • "There are some who are born with stars and others with stars, and even if you don't want to believe it, I am one of the most starry ones", a phrase taken from her letter sent in 1927 to her boyfriend Alejandro Gómez Arías.

  • "Feet, why do I want them if I have wings to fly?" Quote from his diary.
  • "Where you cannot love, do not delay."
  • "As always, when I get away from you, I take your world and your life into me, and this is how I can hold on for longer."
  • “Each (tick-tock) is a second of life that passes, flees, and does not repeat itself. And there is so much intensity in it, so much interest, that the problem is just knowing how to live it. Let each one solve as they can ”.
  • What would I do without the absurd and the fleeting? "
  • “I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. "
  • “I used to think that I was the strangest person in the world, but then I thought, there are a lot of people like that in the world, there has to be someone like me, who feels bizarre and damaged in the same way that I feel. I imagine her, and I imagine that she must be out there thinking about me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this you know that, yes, it's true, I'm here, I'm just as strange as you. "
  • "Whenever I talk to you I end up dying more, a little more."
  • "My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air from my heart to yours."
  • "I love you ... thank you because you live, because yesterday you let me touch your most intimate light."

So far the compilation of phrases by Frida Kahlo has come; I hope they have been to your liking and you can choose one for the objective you have in mind. We invite you to share the article on social networks and leave a comment with your opinion.


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