They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
FK
Frida KahloAs quoted in Time (April 27, 1953)
About Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter known for her self-portraits. (1907-1954)
More from Frida Kahlo
- I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.As quoted in Así (March 17, 1945)
- I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.As quoted in Time (April 27, 1953)
- Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.Diary drawing (1953), before her leg amputation
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- Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.William James
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.Bertrand Russell
- Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.Bertrand Russell
- What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act.Søren Kierkegaard
- The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.Søren Kierkegaard
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