Frida Kahlo's most famous quotes (and where they come from)
The top 3 according to 3 votes from people: I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim. · I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. · I have suffered two grave accidents in my life: one in which a streetcar knocked me down; the other is Diego.. (Updated Sep 6, 2020.)
"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.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 10
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1
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Letter to Ella Wolfe (1938).
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2
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Interview with Antonio Rodríguez in Así magazine (1945).
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3
I have suffered two grave accidents in my life: one in which a streetcar knocked me down; the other is Diego.
Quoted by Gisèle Freund in Novedades (1951).
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4
Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly?
Diary, 1953, before her leg was amputated.
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5
I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
Interview in Time, "Mexican Autobiography" (1953).
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6
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
Interview in Time, "Mexican Autobiography" (1953).
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7
I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.
Last entry in her diary (July 1954).
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8
I am a poor little deer.
Inscription on a photograph for Diego Rivera (1946).
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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.
On Diego Rivera, in "Portrait of Diego" (1949).
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10
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
Quoted in Gerry Souter's biography Frida Kahlo.
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