Artists about Art: Frida Kahlo

 Seven Paintings and Quotations of Frida  Kahlo

 

 

I paint flowers so they will not die.

 

 


 

 

I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

 

 


 

 

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. 

 

 


 

 

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

 


 

 

 I don’t give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way.

You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious. I am; simply I am.

 

 


 

My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. 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. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.

 

 


 

 

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

 




 

2 Comments

  1. Frida Kahlo … a great mystic in a broken woman’s body. Her life continues to reveal layers of unspoken awareness in the wisdom, the profound beauty she created and her perseverance to paint, regardless of physical and or emotional turmoil she endured.
    She is skillful with her images to share her suffering, and it is as upon viewing we feel it … the fragility of the body, the heart & the mind.
    Beautiful post … thank you.

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