Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 and died a few days after her birthday, on July 13, 1954 in her city of birth, in Coyocán, Mexico, at the age of 47… she died young. Her full name was Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón and she was a painter. Her life was unhappy in terms of health as she contracted polio after having suffered a traffic accident in her youth that kept her in bed for long periods, undergoing up to 32 surgical operations.
His works were biographical and reflected his daily suffering… he transformed his suffering into art. She became one of the most prominent Mexican artists in the world thanks to her 200 works. She served as an inspiration to none other than Picasso.
Frida Kahlo phrases full of feeling
In addition to all his art in the paintings and all the feelings that he conveyed in each of them, he also left us many reflections on love, life or death and other topics that will probably not leave you indifferent.
- Feet what do I want you for, if I have wings to fly.
- I used to think I was the strangest person on the planet but then I realized that there are a lot of people in the world, so there must be someone like me who felt weird and flawed just like me. I used to imagine that woman and think that she would also be out there thinking of me. Well, I hope that if you are and you read this, you know that yes, it's true, I'm here and I'm just as weird as you are.
- I tried to drown my sorrows in alcohol, but the damned learned to swim.
- I paint flowers so that they don't die.
- It was a lonely flower, a joyful butterfly you landed there; later the pollen of another more fragrant flower called, and the butterfly flew.
- Sometimes I prefer to talk to workers and bricklayers than to those stupid people who call themselves cultured people.
- Man is master of his destiny and his destiny is the earth, and he himself is destroying it until he has no destiny.
- Who would say that spots live and help to live? Ink, blood, smell… What would I do without the absurd and the fleeting?
- Do not let the tree of which you are the sun make thirsty.
- Walling off your own suffering is risking being devoured from the inside.
- If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do whatever you want.
- Nothing is more valuable than laughter. It takes strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. The tragedy is the most ridiculous.
- I believe that little by little, I will be able to solve my problems and survive.
- If I could give you one thing in life, I would like to give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes. Only then would you realize how special you are to me.
- And you well know that the sexual attractiveness in women ends by flying, and then they have nothing left but what they have in their heads to be able to defend themselves in this filthy life of hell.
- I paint self-portraits because I am alone a lot. I paint myself because I am the one I know best.
- Perhaps they expect to hear from me lamentations, of "how much one suffers" living with a man like Diego. But I don't think the banks of a river suffer from letting it flow.
- Where you cannot love, do not delay.
- Why do I call him my Diego? It was never and never will be mine. It belongs to himself ...
- So many things to tell you and so few come out of my mouth. You should learn to read my eyes when I look at you.
- At the end of the day, we can take a lot longer than we think we can.
- The most powerful art in life is to make pain a talisman that heals, a butterfly that is reborn, blooming in a festival of colors.
- Each tick is a second of life that passes, flees, and does not repeat itself.
- Waiting with the anguish saved, the broken spine and the immense gaze. Without walking on the vast path, moving my life surrounded by steel.
- I drink to forget, but now… I don't remember what.
- I suffered two serious accidents in my life: one in which a bus knocked me to the ground, the other is Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
- Have a lover who looks at you like you are a bourbon cake.
- You deserve a lover who wants you tousled, with everything and all the reasons that make you wake up quickly and the demons that don't let you sleep. You deserve a lover who makes you feel safe, who makes the world disappear if he walks by your hand, someone who believes that his hugs are the best complement to your skin. You deserve a lover who wants to dance with you, who reaches paradise every time he looks into your eyes and who never tires of studying your gestures. You deserve a lover who listens to you when you sing, who supports you when you are ashamed and respects your freedom; that flies with you and is not afraid of falling. You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee and poetry.
- Can you make up verbs? I want to tell you one: I love you, so my wings spread enormously to love you without measure ... we are of the same matter, of the same waves ...
- 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.
- I'm not sick. I am broke. But I am happy to live as long as I can paint.
- Doctor, if you let me have this tequila, I promise not to drink at my funeral.
- I hope the departure is happy and I hope I never return.
- Who gave you the absolute truth? There is nothing absolute, everything changes, everything moves, everything revolutionizes, everything flies and goes.
- I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
- Beauty and ugliness are a mirage because others end up seeing our interior.
- There is nothing more beautiful than laughter.
- 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 very stars.
- Never in all my life will I forget your presence. You welcomed me shattered and gave me back whole, whole.
- You deserve the best of the best, because you are one of those few people who, in this miserable world, are still honest with themselves, and that's the only thing that really counts.
- Pain, pleasure and death are nothing more than the process of existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is an open door to intelligence.
- Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion inside a closet, where you are sure to find shirts.
- No place is sadder than an empty bed.
- If you want me in your life you will put me in it. I should not be fighting for a position.
- I, who fell in love with your wings, will never want to cut them.
- The most important part of the body is the brain. I like my eyebrows and my eyes about my face. Other than that I don't like anything else. My head is too small. My breasts and genitals are ordinary. Of the opposite sex, I have a mustache and a face in general.
- I don't want a love that is half, torn and split in half. I have fought and suffered so much that I deserve something whole, intense, indestructible.
- What is my way? Wait? Forget you? Do what you do, go into the arms of one and the other, today sleep with someone and tomorrow with a different one?
- You see that I neither have the language of Cervantes, nor the aptitude nor the poetic or descriptive genius, but you are an ax to understand my relaxed language.
- From the most evil year, the most beautiful day is born.
Which one has inspired you the most?