Quotes & Sayings About Frida

I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me. — Frida Kahlo

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

Mom?" Mother turned to Grandmother.
"What?"
"She's going to lunch with her kidnapper!"
"Take a picture for me," Grandma said. — Ilona Andrews

I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove. — Kathleen Hanna

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

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

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny. — Frida Kahlo

High society here turns me off and I feel a bit of rage against all these rich guys here, since I have seen thousands of people in the most terrible misery without anything to eat and with no place to sleep, that is what has most impressed me here, it is terrifying to see the rich having parties day and night while thousands and thousands of people are dying of hunger ... Although I am very interested in all the industrial and mechanical development of the United States, I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They live as if in an enormous chicken coop that is dirty and uncomfortable. The houses look like bread ovens and all the comfort that they talk about is a myth. — Frida Kahlo

I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child. — Frida Giannini

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 ... You are a shit. — Frida Kahlo

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst. — Frida Kahlo

People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything — Frida Kahlo

My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines. — Frida Giannini

I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about how my parents were and what kinds of movies I was watching. — Frida Giannini

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida. — Diego Rivera

I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better. — Frida Giannini

I'm going to shoot him," I squeezed through my teeth. "No, that would be murder," Grandma Frida told me, her voice soothing. "You've had a long day. Let's put your magic away. You know what you need? A nice cup of chamomile tea and a tranquilizer . . ." I — Ilona Andrews

We don't need the money that badly," my mother said. "According to my sisters, we do." I slid the photograph with dollar signs toward her. Mom swung toward Grandma Frida. "Mom!" Grandma Frida's eyes got really big. "What? Don't look at me!" "You started this." Ha! Attack deflected and redirected. "I did no such thing. I'm innocent. You always blame me for everything." "You started it and you encouraged it. Now look, she's taking on murders because you're guilt-tripping her to put food on the table. And what kind of message does this send?" "A true-love kind of message." Grandma Frida grinned. — Ilona Andrews

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint. — Frida Kahlo

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. — Frida Kahlo

I always loved the look of musicians. I've always admired them because they have a look - when I was growing up, it seemed that the ones I liked didn't need to have a stylist. — Frida Giannini

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

I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion. — Frida Lyngstad

All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright. — Frida Giannini

It's not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture. So at the emerging level, you can't have a good survey art show without women and artists of color. — Frida Kahlo

Why do I need feet when I have wings to fly? — Frida Kahlo

Did you see how she got all hot under the collar?" Grandma Frida said in a theatrical whisper behind me. She's not over him.

"I can hear you! — Ilona Andrews

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling. — Frida Kahlo

I have not forgotten you - the nights are long and difficult. You too know that all my eyes see, all touch with myself, from any distance, is you. 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 you. You felt it, that's why you let that ship take me away from Le Havre where you never said good-bye to me. I will write to you with my eyes, always. For you is all. — Frida Kahlo

I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts. — Frida Lyngstad

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. — Frida Kahlo

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. — Frida Kahlo

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb. — Andre Breton

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote. — Frida Kahlo

There will never be another Frida. — Barbara Kingsolver

The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it's like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid. — Frida Kahlo

I inherited this collection of vinyl records, which at that time numbered 6,000, and I've since continued to collect music. As you know, vinyl records can be very heavy, so every time I have to move into a new house, I need to build a complete new wall of shelves to put all these records, which is a nightmare for the architect. — Frida Giannini

I'm obsessed with vinyasa flow yoga and Pilates. And since I live in Sweden, and we have good seafood, I tend to cook a lot of fish, preferably with oven-roasted veggies and a cauliflower mash. — Frida Gustavsson

During her life she was in Rivera's shadow. She was framed as the 'Wife of the Master Mural Painter [who] Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art', as the patronizing headline of the Detroit News proclaimed in February 1933. Today, Rivera is known as Frida's husband. — Gannit Ankori

If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait. — Diego Rivera

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts. — Frida Kahlo

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing. — Frida Kahlo

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. — Frida Kahlo

Do you have a girlfriend?" Grandma Frida asked. I put my hand over my face. "No," Mad Rogan said. "A boyfriend?" Grandma Frida asked. "No." "What about ... " "No," Mom and I said in unison. "But you don't even know what I wanted to ask!" "No," we said again together. "Party poopers." Grandma shrugged. — Ilona Andrews

My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours. — Frida Kahlo

I love you more than my own skin. — Frida Kahlo

Where'd you get that lighter?" she demanded.
"Frida," Dan said, closing it. "She left it behind. Remember how she was always talking about outdoorsy stuff? She said she kept a water-resistant lighter on her at all times, in case she needed emergency fire."
There was a short beat of silence in the dumpster.
"Huh," said Dan. "Except probably now. — Clifford Riley

They sit for hours in the "cafes" warming their precious behinds, and talk 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. — Frida Kahlo

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? — Frida Kahlo

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. — Frida Kahlo

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

I don't like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls. — Frida Kahlo

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

I could kill that guy and eat it afterwards... — Frida Kahlo

I love you more than my own skin and even though you don't love me the same way, you love me anyways, don't you? And if you don't, I'll always have the hope that you do, and i'm satisfied with that. Love me a little. I adore you. — Frida Kahlo

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

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

I'm honored and thrilled to represent such an iconic brand and to be a part of the Maybelline New York family. — Frida Gustavsson

There is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live. — Frida Kahlo

Salma and I had run into each other once or twice at film festivals because I was doing the press for Real Women Have Curves at the same time she was doing the press for Frida. She had seen Real Women Have Curves, and when the idea of Ugly Betty came up, she thought of me. Her enthusiasm about the project was so infectious-she spoke of it with such expectation. Everyone that was involved was really excited about the project. I really wanted to be a part of it. — America Ferrera

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was. — Frida Kahlo

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain. — Frida Kahlo

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying — Frida Kahlo

I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work. — Madonna Ciccone

I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best. — Frida Kahlo

I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later. — Diego Rivera

Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything. — Chavela Vargas

I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty ... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain. — Frida Kahlo

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to. — Frida Kahlo

When I joined Gucci in 2002, I immediately wanted to make a research trip into the archives because I'd heard about how incredible they were, but I never had the opportunity to visit them. — Frida Giannini

Desperate with the endless tedium, thoughts racing and roving and deepening since they could not find outlet in immediate action, she underwent a profound metamorphosis in character. It is questionable whether the painter known as Frida Kahlo would have existed were it not for that year of suffering and constraint. — Bertram D. Wolfe

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it. — Isabella Rossellini

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit. — Frida Kahlo

I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative. — Frida Giannini

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. — Frida Kahlo

There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them. — Paloma Faith

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors. — Salma Hayek

Money cannot buy happiness. — Frida Lyngstad

If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world. — Frida Giannini

I want to be inside your darkest everything — Frida Kahlo

My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one. — Francesca Lia Block

Frida. So after all, it is not for nothing that I was born a poet. For now she is going forth into the great wide world, that I once yearned so passionately to see. Little Frida sets out in a splendid covered sledge with silver bells on the harness - — Henrik Ibsen

It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought ... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively. — Edan Lepucki

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. — Frida Kahlo

Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.
Lacuna — Barbara Kingsolver

I love Frida Kahlo. — Paz De La Huerta

I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world. — Frida Kahlo

How is it going with your boyfriend?;););) - text from Grandma Frida — Ilona Andrews

You deserve a lover who wants you disheveled, with everything and all the reasons that wake you up in a haste and the demons that won't let you sleep.
You deserve a lover who makes you feel safe, who can consume this world whole if he walks hand in hand with you; someone who believes that his embraces are a perfect match with your skin.
You deserve a lover who wants to dance with you, who goes to paradise every time he looks into your eyes and never gets tired of studying your expressions.
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.
You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry. — Frida Kahlo

A Maybelline New York woman is strong and confident - I love that attitude. — Frida Gustavsson

I am nauseated by all these rotten people in Europe - and these fucking "democracies" are not worth even a crumb. — Frida Kahlo

I like tough relationships. I think relationships with conflict are good for you - you learn. But you can't listen too much. I have a strong point of view, and it's important that I fight for my ideas. — Frida Giannini

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer. — Frida Giannini

I paint my own reality. — Frida Kahlo

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. — Frida Kahlo

Fragrance is, to me, something very personal; because it is something you wear every day, it should represent you and be an extension of your style. — Frida Gustavsson

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

There is nothing more precious than laughter — Frida Kahlo

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away. — Frida Kahlo

Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs. — Pascale Petit