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Frida Kahlo
- I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
- I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
- 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
- They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
- Really I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
- I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
- 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 have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down. The other accident is DIego (Rivera).
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