Quotes by Frida Kahlo

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

“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”

“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".”

“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”

“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.”

“I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.”

“I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.”

“Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.”

“Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.”

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

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

“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”