Top 40 Frida Kahlo Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Frida Kahlo

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2. “Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.”

— Frida Kahlo

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3. “Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

— Frida Kahlo

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

— Frida Kahlo

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5. “I paint flowers so they will not die.”

— Frida Kahlo

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6. “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”

— Frida Kahlo

7. “I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”

— Frida Kahlo

8. “I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”

— Frida Kahlo

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9. “Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”

— Frida Kahlo

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10. “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”

— Frida Kahlo

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11. “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

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12. “I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”

— Frida Kahlo

13. “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

14. “I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.”

— Frida Kahlo

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15. “I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”

— Frida Kahlo

16. “Yo le duro lo que usted me cuide, yo le hablo como usted me trate y le creo lo que usted me demuestre.”

— Frida Kahlo

17. “My painting carries with it the message of pain.”

— Frida Kahlo

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18. “Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”

— Frida Kahlo

19. “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

20. “Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.”

— Frida Kahlo

21. “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

22. “They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”

— Frida Kahlo

23. “The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become ‘somebody,’ and frankly, I don’t have the least ambition to become anybody.”

— Frida Kahlo

24. “You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.”

— Frida Kahlo

25. “Donde no puedas amar, no te demores.”

— Frida Kahlo

26. “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.”

— Frida Kahlo

27. “No moon, sun, diamond, hands – fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.”

— Frida Kahlo

28. “There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the train the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”

— Frida Kahlo

29. “Si actuas como si supieras lo que estas haciendo, puedes hacer lo que quieras.”

— Frida Kahlo

30. “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

31. “Her view of life, she told a friend, was: “Make love. Take a bath. Make love again.”

— Frida Kahlo

32. “Can verbs be made up? I’ll tell you one. I heaven you, so my wings will open wide to love you boundlessly.”

— Frida Kahlo

33. “I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.”

— Frida Kahlo

34. “They sit for hours in the “cafes” warming their precious behinds, and talk without stopping about “culture” “art” “revolution” and so on and so forth, thinking themselves the gods of the world, dreaming the most fantastic nonsenses and poisoning the air with theories and theories that never come true.”

— Frida Kahlo

35. “Perhaps it is expected that I should lament about how I have suffered living with a man like Diego. But I do not think that the banks of a river suffer because they let the river flow, nor does the earth suffer because of the rains, nor does the atom suffer for letting its energy escape. To my way of thinking, everything has its natural compensation.”

— Frida Kahlo

36. “A veces tienes que olvidar lo que sientes, y recordar lo que mereces.”

— Frida Kahlo

37. “Amurallar el propio sufrimiento es arriesgarse a que te devore desde el interior.”

— Frida Kahlo

38. “Vivir de recuerdos es morir.”

— Frida Kahlo

39. “Why do I need feet when I have wings to fly?”

— Frida Kahlo

40. “This is how it feels to be in this broken female body. This is how it feels to be alone... This is how it feels to be me. I dare you to look... and once you look, I’m going to make sure you cannot look away.”

— Frida Kahlo

41. “I want to be inside your darkest everything.”

— Frida Kahlo

42. “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

43. “I could kill that guy and eat it afterwards...”

— Frida Kahlo

44. “The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it’s like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.”

— Frida Kahlo

45. “My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It’s not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can’t. 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

46. “You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress of fabrics, the color of colors, the wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells, the war and the sun, everything experienced in the minutes of the non-clocks and the non-calendars and the empty non-glances, is him.”

— 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