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!
#101 Masterpiece energy, but make it chill
"My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently."
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#102 When barely surviving feels revolutionary
"I have to fight with all my strength to contribute the few positive things my health allows me to the revolution"
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#103 When wishing goes off the rails
"Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't."
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#104 Plot Twist: Shyness Didn’t Win
"I was always shy and afraid to show my things."
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#105 That Mood Swing Though
"Life insists on being my friend and my enemy."
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#106 Dad’s lessons hit different, huh?
"I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me."
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#107 Brain Dump on a Canvas
"I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind."
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#108 Work Therapy, But Make It Art
"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."
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#109 This hit different, huh?
"The caress of fabrics, the color of colors, the wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells, the war and the sun, everything experienced in the minutes of the non-clocks and the non-calendars and the empty non-glances, is him."
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#110 This Hit Too Close to Home
"I love you more than my own skin and even though you don’t love me the same way, you love me anyway, don’t you? And if you don’t, I’ll always have the hope that you do, and I’m satisfied with that."
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#111 Well, That Escalated Quickly
"I could kill that guy and eat it afterward."
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#112 Waking Up to Unexpected Comfort
"It is six o’clock in the morning and the turkeys are singing, the warmth of human tenderness. Companionable solitude. Never, in all my life will I forget your presence. You took me to you when I was shattered and you restored me to a complete whole. In this small world, where shall I turn my eyes? It’s deep immense!"
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#113 Café Philosophers Anonymous
"They sit for hours in the cafes, warming their precious behinds and talking without stopping about culture, art, revolution, and so on and so forth, thinking themselves the gods of the world, dreaming the most fantastic nonsenses and poisoning the air with theories and theories that never come true."
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#114 Plot Twist: I Wasn’t Ready for That
"I just want your serious opinion."
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#115 When silence screams louder than words
"Quietly, the grief, loudly the pain. The accumulated poison love faded away. Mine was a strange world of criminal silences of strangers' watchful eyes misreading the evil. Darkness in the daytime, I didn’t live the nights."
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#116 When Nothing’s Left, Spin It Around
"There is nothing left everything revolves."
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#117 Deep Thoughts But Make It Cosmic
"Through the round numbers and the colored nerves, the stars are made and the worlds are sounds."
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#118 Work hard, avoid the feels
"I believe that by working I will forget the sorrows."
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#119 Doing Good Flexes My Strength
"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."
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#120 So much pain, still all in for Diego
"I have no words to tell you how much I have been suffering and knowing how much I love Diego you must understand that these troubles will never end in my life."
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