What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death. - Frida Kahlo
Pies pa' que los quiero, si tengo alas pa' volar - Frida Kahlo
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. - Frida Kahlo
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
I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo
I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior. - Frida Kahlo
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint. - Frida Kahlo
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly? - Frida Kahlo
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving. - Frida Kahlo
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive. - Frida Kahlo
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. - Frida Kahlo
I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return. - Frida Kahlo
Feet, what do I need them forIf I have wings to fly. - Frida Kahlo
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best - Frida Kahlo
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. - Frida Kahlo