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!
#121 Art That’s Honestly Just Me
"Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself."
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#122 Well, That Took a Dark Turn
"People, in general, are scared to death of the war and all the exhibitions have been a failure."
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#123 Grace in his every step
"My father, Guillermo Kahlo, was a fascinating man, quite elegant when moving, when walking."
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#124 When Hunger Calls the Shots
"I no longer have even the slightest hope. It all moves to the beat of which my belly holds."
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#125 Plot twist: life’s bad joke
"Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing."
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#126 Flying solo but still winging it
"My Diego, I'm no longer alone. Wings? You keep me company."
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#127 “When You Wing It and It Works”
"I didn't study with Diego. I didn't study with anyone. I just started to paint."
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#128 Basic facts that should’ve been obvious all along
"So at the emerging level, you can't have a good survey art show without women and artists of color."
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#129 Plot twist: Still healing, just differently
"I wanted to study medicine."
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#130 Gotta Love the Random Moments
"What would I do without the absurd and the fleeting?"
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#131 Small Head, Big Mood
"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."
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#132 When Feels Become Self-Portraits
"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."
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#133 Words playing hide and seek
"No moon, sun, diamond, hands – fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming."
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#134 Stubborn Minds Need Not Apply
"And to hold on to some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive."
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#135 When feelings hit harder than words
"If only, I had his caresses upon me. As the air touches the earth – the reality of his person would make me merrier, it would take me away from the feeling which fills me with gray. Nothing inside me would be so deep, so final. But, how can I explain to him my need for tenderness! My loneliness over the years. My structure displeases me because of its lack of harmony, and its unfitness. I think it would be better for me to go, to go and not to run away. If it were all over within an instant."
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#136 Waiting on hope feels impossible sometimes
"They amputated my leg 6 months ago It seemed to me centuries of torture and at times I nearly went crazy. I still feel like committing suicide Diego prevents me from doing it in the vain belief that maybe he will need me. He has told me so and I believe him. But I have never suffered so much in my life. I’ll wait a while."
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#137 Still Vibes, Forever Echoed
"You left us, Chabela Villasenor. But your voice, your electricity, your enormous talent, your poetry, your light, your mystery, all that remains of you – is still alive."
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#138 Rescue Missions Not Required
"I don’t need rescuing, Diego."
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#139 This Feels Like Forever
"Years. Waiting with anguish hidden away, my spine is broken, and the immense glance, footless through the vast path… Carrying on my life enclosed in steel."
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#140 Fear Wrote Their Fanfiction
"What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death."
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