Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo de Rivera, born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, was a Mexican painter known for her self-portraits...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth6 July 1907
CityCoyoacan, Mexico
CountryMexico
laughter light laughing
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
strong heart men
You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”
ideas forever littles
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.
ephemeral absurd
What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?
children pain thinking
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.
strong-women art reality
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
mountain knows core
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
stars cells space
Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.
love art happy-friday
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
love art happy-friday
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
artist expression painting
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
faces boring
I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.
mother-daughter laughter mother-and-daughter
There is nothing more precious than laughter
ambition important important-things
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.