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
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.
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
thinking able littles
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
pain happy-friday artist
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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.
flower dying paint
I paint flowers to prevent them from dying
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.
art lions surprise
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
art color voice
It's not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture. So at the emerging level, you can't have a good survey art show without women and artists of color.
mother-daughter laughter mother-and-daughter
There is nothing more precious than laughter
ephemeral absurd
What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?
real fighting littles
I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.
stars knowing bird
To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves.