If you are no stranger to the art world, then perhaps you are familiar with Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and her artwork. The artist has left a considerable impact not only on the art universe but also on Mexican ancestry and myriad people worldwide. Frida Kahlo art, which can be almost given its own distinctive art genre, is best known for its unflinching and beautifully colored self-portraits, which explore the issues of identity, the human body, and mortality.
In many Frida Kahlo paintings, the spectator can sense the struggles the artist endured due to the chronic pain caused by a bus accident when she was 18. Besides the depiction of pain and suffering, the artist was praised for her uncompromising portrayal of the feminine experience and her evident love for Mexico's colors and culture. However, the world remembers Kahlo not only for her mesmerizing artwork. The inspiring quotes Kahlo left behind still echo with millions of people who can relate to the struggles and experiences the artist went through.
Frida Kahlo quotes speak for themselves. She masterfully pieces simple words together and paints sentences that hit close to home for many. In her famous quotes, the artist conveys the importance of art, love, and being honest with yourself; she explores the essence of life, pain, suffering, and much more. And all these almost-poetry-sounding inspirational quotes, the artist has so beautifully portrayed in her works of art.
Below, we have compiled a list of quotes by Frida Kahlo that will undoubtedly strike a chord with you. There's something to discover for everyone. Is there a Frida Kahlo quote you particularly liked that has really sunk in? Let us know!
#1 Goodbye, and good riddance
"I hope the exit is joyful. And I hope never to return."
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#2 Letting Pain Breathe Feels Better
"Don't build a wall around your suffering. It may devour you from the inside."
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#3 Negotiating like it’s my last call
"Doctor, if you let me drink this tequila, I promise I won't drink at my funeral."
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#4 Big Mood: Where’s My Partner?
"No place in life is sadder than an empty bed."
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#5 Painting: Easy to Start, Impossible to Master
"To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult."
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#6 Slowly Winning at Life
"I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive."
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#7 Broken but still brushing life’s colors
"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint."
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#8 All In or Nothing, Seriously
"I do not want a half-hearted love, torn and cut in half."
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#9 Same System, Different Scars
"Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they’re not at all the same. But they’re both symptoms inside the white male power structure."
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#10 Guess we’re bad at keeping plans
"Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny."
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#11 Mood: chaos meets karaoke night
"I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote."
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#12 Mountains Have Secrets Too
"Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain."
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#13 Turning Hurt Into Power
"The most powerful art is to make pain a healing talisman."
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#14 Holding Out for Your Words
"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."
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#15 Love You’re Tripping Over, Literally
"I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving."
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#16 Love Should Feel Like Flying, Not Falling
"You deserve a lover who listens when you sing, who supports you when you feel shame and respects your freedom; who flies with you and isn't afraid to fall."
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#17 Guess Even Artists Need Company
"The fact that I painted myself twice, I think, is nothing but the representation of my loneliness."
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#18 Love’s VIP section only
"Where you cannot love, do not delay."
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#19 Stranger Things, But Make It Personal
"Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you."
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#20 Healing beats self-sabotage every time
"To trap one’s self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside."
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