Frida Kahlo is the iconic Mexican artist who is remembered worldwide for her paintings, and self-portraits, that express pain and passion, in bold, vibrant colors. Let’s explore and enjoy Frida Kahlo quotes to inspire you to transform pain into power.
Frida has been a legend for people because of her inner strength and resilience. And her life was a testimony of immense struggle and how she overcame it every time with great courage. As a child, she suffered from Polio and also had multiple fractures when she nearly died in a bus accident as a teenager. So we see that many of her beautiful paintings drew inspiration from her real-life experiences of pain, love, body, and more.
Out of 143 artworks of the legendary artist, 55 are Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits which are mostly depictions of physical and mental scars.
Some of her most famous paintings were Frieda and Diego Rivera (1931), Henry Ford Hospital (1932), My Birth (1932), The Two Fridas (1939), and more.
Let us look at some inspirational Frida Kahlo quotes that are deep and thought-provoking on identity, pain, love, and feminism.
Top 10 Frida Kahlo Quotes
1.“There is nothing left everything revolves.” — Frida Kahlo
2.“I hope the exit is joyful. And I hope never to return.” — Frida Kahlo 
3. “There is nothing more precious than laughter.” — Frida Kahlo
4.“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?” — Frida Kahlo
5.“Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.” — Frida Kahlo
6.“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.” — Frida Kahlo
7.“I tried to drown my sorrows but they learned how to swim.” — Frida Kahlo
8.“Don’t build a wall around your suffering. It may devour you from the inside.” — Frida Kahlo
9.“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.” — Frida Kahlo
10.“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” — Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Famous Quotes
11.“Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.” — Frida Kahlo
12.“Diego was everything; my child, my lover, my universe.” — Frida Kahlo
13.“I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.” — Frida Kahlo
14.“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.” — Frida Kahlo
15.“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” — Frida Kahlo
16.“I am my own muse; I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” — Frida Kahlo
17.“You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego.” — Frida Kahlo
18.“Through the round numbers and the colored nerves the stars are made and the worlds are sounds.” — Frida Kahlo
19.“My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It’s not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can’t.” — Frida Kahlo
20.“I warn you that in this picture I am painting of Diego there will be colors which even I am not fully acquainted with. Besides, I love Diego so much I cannot be an objective speculator of him or his life.” — Frida Kahlo
Best Quotes Of Frida Kahlo
21.“I was born a bitch. I was born a painter.” — Frida Kahlo
22.“I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.” — Frida Kahlo
23.“I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.” — Frida Kahlo
24.“To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.” — Frida Kahlo
25.“My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.” — Frida Kahlo
26.“The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.” — Frida Kahlo
27.“Everyone’s opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes.” — Frida Kahlo
28.“I was a child who went about in a world of colors… My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.” — Frida Kahlo
29.“Pain, pleasure, and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.” — Frida Kahlo
30“A despair which no words can describe. I’m still eager to live. I’ve started to paint again. A little picture to give to Dr. Farill on which I’m working with all my love. I feel uneasy about my painting.” — Frida Kahlo
Inspirational Frida Kahlo Quotes
31.“Why do I need feet when I have wings to fly?” — Frida Kahlo
32.“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness.” — Frida Kahlo
33.“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” — Frida Kahlo
34.“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.” — Frida Kahlo
35.“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.” — Frida Kahlo
36.“I am nothing but a “small damned” part of a revolutionary movement. Always revolutionary never dead, never useless.” — Frida Kahlo
37.“It is terrifying to see the rich having parties day and night while thousands and thousands of people are dying of hunger.” — Frida Kahlo
38.“People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibitions have been a failure because the rich don’t want to buy anything.” — Frida Kahlo
39.“Years. Waiting with anguish hidden away, my spine broken, and the immense glance, footless through the vast path… Carrying on my life enclosed in steel.” — Frida Kahlo
40.“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
Frida Kahlo Quotes About Life
41.“Painting completed my life.” — Frida Kahlo
42.“My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.” — Frida Kahlo
43.“I paint flowers to prevent them from dying.” — Frida Kahlo
44.“No place in life is sadder than an empty bed.” — Frida Kahlo
45.“I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” — Frida Kahlo
46.“What do you think matters most for a good marriage?” — Frida Kahlo
47.“They say never trust a limping dog or the tears of a woman.” — Frida Kahlo
48.“It is not worthwhile to leave this world without having had a little fun in life.” — Frida Kahlo
49.“Don’t build a wall around your own suffering, it may devour you from the inside.” — Frida Kahlo
50.“… There is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.” — Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Quotes About Love
51.“Love me a little. I adore you.” — Frida Kahlo
52.“Where you cannot love, do not delay.” — Frida Kahlo
53.“I love you more than my own skin.” — Frida Kahlo
54.“I want to be inside your darkest everything.” — Frida Kahlo
55.“Loyalty is important to me. Can you be loyal?” — Frida Kahlo
56.“You are all the combinations of numbers of life.” — Frida Kahlo
57.“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.” — Frida Kahlo
58.“Her view of life, she told a friend, was: ‘Make love. Take a bath. Make love again.’” — Frida Kahlo
59.“You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.” — Frida Kahlo
60.“Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.” — Frida Kahlo
61.“Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.” — Frida Kahlo
62.“I’d like to paint you, but there are no colors, because there are so many, in my confusion, the tangible form of my great love.” — Frida Kahlo
63.“I’ll wait for you. You responded to a sense with your voice and I’m full of you, waiting for your words which will make me grow and will enrich me.” — Frida Kahlo
64.“You deserve a lover who wants you disheveled, with everything and all the reasons that wake you up in haste and the demons that won’t let you sleep.” — Frida Kahlo
65.“Can verbs be made up? I’ll tell you one. I heaven you, so my wings will open wide to love you boundlessly. I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” — Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Quotes
66.“I don’t want you to think like I do. I just want you to think.” — Frida Kahlo
67.“What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?” — Frida Kahlo
68.“My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently.” — Frida Kahlo
69.“I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.” — Frida Kahlo
70.“So forgotten and so firm. Snail shells and the bride-doll, is yours too ~ I mean, it is you.” — Frida Kahlo
71.“I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.” — Frida Kahlo
72.“Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.” — Frida Kahlo
73.“You didn’t understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure. I am essence. I am an idiot. I am tenacious. I am. I simply am.” — Frida Kahlo
74.“This upper class is disgusting and I’m furious at all these rich people here, having seen thousands of people in abject squalor.” — Frida Kahlo
75.“I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn’t say otherwise.” — Frida Kahlo
Quotes By Frida Kahlo
76.“I paint flowers so they will not die.” — Frida Kahlo
77.“My painting carries with it the message of pain.” — Frida Kahlo
78.“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t.” — Frida Kahlo
79.“To trap one’s self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.” — Frida Kahlo
80.“I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.” — Frida Kahlo
81.“Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were ‘sure’ of finding shirts.” — Frida Kahlo
82.“Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.” — Frida Kahlo
83.“You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.” — Frida Kahlo
84.“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.” — Frida Kahlo
85.“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
Top 10 Frida Kahlo Quotes In Spanish
86.“Nunca pinto sueños o pesadillas. Pinto mi propia realidad”. – Frida Kahlo
87.“Enamórate de ti. De la vida. Y luego de quien tú quieras”. – Frida Kahlo
88.“Pinto autorretratos porque estoy mucho tiempo sola. Me pinto a mí misma porque soy a quien mejor conozco”. – Frida Kahlo
89.“La parte más importante del cuerpo es el cerebro. De mi rostro me gustan mis cejas y mis ojos”
90.“ No hay nada más hermoso que la risa”. – Frida Kahlo
91. “Quisiera darte todo lo que nunca hubieras tenido, y ni así sabrías la maravilla que es poder quererte”. – Frida Kahlo
92. “Amurallar el propio sufrimiento es arriesgarte a que te devore desde el interior”. – Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo’s Life And Facts
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.
Born: 6 July 1907, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
Died: 13 July 1954, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
- In May 2006, her self-portrait Roots sold for US$5.6 million dollars setting an auction record for a Latin American piece of art.
- The 500 Mexican peso bill is unique in that it contains two portraits, one on each side. The duo are the famous couple, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, two of the country’s most celebrated artists and personalities.
- Her last drawing was of a black angel, accompanied by the words: “I joyfully await the exit — and I hope never to return — Frida.”
Conclusion
These quotes provide a glimpse into the mind of Frida Kahlo, a remarkable artist whose work continues to captivate audiences and inspire generations to embrace their individuality and express their truths through art.
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