Explore Quotes by Frida Kahlo

Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.

The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.

My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.

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 am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.

I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

I don't know how to write love letters.

I am my own muse, the subject I know best.

I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.

I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.

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

People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibitions have been a failure, because the rich bitches 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.

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

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.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.