# Frida Kahlo's most famous quotes (and where they come from)

"Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly?", the sorrows that learned to swim and the two accidents of her life: the most quoted lines of Frida Kahlo, sourced to her diary, letters and interviews.

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## Top 10

1. **I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Letter to Ella Wolfe (1938).
2. **I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Interview with Antonio Rodríguez in Así magazine (1945).
3. **I have suffered two grave accidents in my life: one in which a streetcar knocked me down; the other is Diego.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Quoted by Gisèle Freund in Novedades (1951).
4. **Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Diary, 1953, before her leg was amputated.
5. **I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Interview in Time, "Mexican Autobiography" (1953).
6. **I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Interview in Time, "Mexican Autobiography" (1953).
7. **I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Last entry in her diary (July 1954).
8. **I am a poor little deer.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Inscription on a photograph for Diego Rivera (1946).
9. **He is as much of a liar as the poets, or as children who have not yet been turned into idiots by school or their mothers.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — On Diego Rivera, in "Portrait of Diego" (1949).
10. **My painting carries with it the message of pain.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Quoted in Gerry Souter's biography Frida Kahlo.

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