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
inspirational motivational dream
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
self risk suffering
To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.
pain happy-friday artist
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
real order profound
Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.
tragedy ridiculous ridiculous-things
Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
dream reality portraits
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
i-love-you happy-friday skins
I love you more than my own skin.
skeletons faces terrified
... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.
departure return exit
I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.
pain struggle doorways
pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence
world throat felt
I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.
mexico surrealist
I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
war people exhibitions
People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything
artist feminist-art needs
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.