Frida Kahlo

“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.”

“Pies pa' que los quiero, si tengo alas pa' volar”

“¿se pueden inventar verbos? quiero decirte uno: yo te cielo, así mis alas se extienden enormes para amarte sin medida... somos de las misma materia, de las mismas ondas...”

“pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence”

“i was born a bitch.i was born a painter.”

“It was worthwhile to come here only to see why Europe is rottening, why all this people - good for nothing - are the cause of all the Hitlers and Mussolinis.”

“I am nauseated by all these rotten people in Europe - and these fucking "democracies" are not worth even a crumb.”

“There is nothing more precious than laughter”

“Acho que é melhor nos separarmos e eu ir tocar minha música em outro lugar com todos os meus preconceitos burgueses de fidelidade.”

“I paint flowers so they will not die.”

“I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.”

“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”

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

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

“Mai in vita miaDimenticherò la tua presenza.Tu mi hai presa quando ero spezzataE mi hai riparataSu questa terra troppo piccolaDove potrei mai voltare il mio sguardo?Così immenso, così profondo!Non c'è più tempo. Non c'è più nulla. Distanza. C'è soltanto la realtà.Quello che è stato, è stato per sempre.”

“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.”

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

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

“They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.”

“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”

“Feet, what do I need them forIf I have wings to fly.”

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

“A vida é cruel por ter inventado a memória. Como os velhos que recobram em matizes suas lembranças mais antigas, à beira da morte minha memória gravita em torno do sol, e como ele clareia tudo! Tudo é presente, nada está perdido. É como uma força oculta que nos impele para nos estimular de novo: diante da evidência de que não mais haverá futuro, o passado se amplifica, suas raízes engrossam, tudo em mim é rizosfera, as cores se cristalizam sobre cada estrato, a mais insignificante imagem toca o seu absoluto, o coração bate em crescendo.”

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

“Que todo termina en un instantePlanatera doloroso”

“Traté de ahogar mis penas... pero las condenadas aprendieron a nadar.”

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

“I paint my own reality. 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.”

“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim ,and now decency and good behavior weary me.”

“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”

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

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