Frida Kahlo: the most beautiful phrases of the iconic artist of the twentieth century
Born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City, Frida Kahlo was and still remains one of the most interesting and significant female figures of the twentieth century. Hers was a difficult life, full of pain and suffering, but also made up of great passions, from that for art and painting to his impetuous love for Diego Rivera.
Many of the phrases written by Frida for her beloved are among the favorite aphorisms of lovers to declare themselves without veils and without hesitation, just like these simple words that we should say more often to those we love:
For this reason we have collected the most beautiful quotes from Frida Kahlo on various and different topics. They range from aphorisms concerning his art to phrases that tell his interiority and his personal stories. Let's find out more about the emblematic figure of Frida through her words.
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Frida Kahlo's aphorisms on painting and art
As a young woman Frida suffered a serious accident that seriously compromised her health for the rest of her life. However, despite the physical pains, he found refuge and relief in painting. Here are her sentences that best describe her art, the philosophy behind it and how fundamental it was for her to paint and create.
I paint the flowers to keep them from dying.
Revolution is the harmony of form and color and everything exists, and moves, under a single law: life.
I am happy, as long as I can paint.
I've always painted my reality, not my dreams.
I paint self portraits because I am the person I know best.
The most beautiful quotes by Frida Kahlo on love
The figure of Frida Kahlo cannot fail to be compared to that of Diego Rivera, her great love. Their relationship was tormented and fluctuating, marked by a strong passion and by his constant betrayals towards the Mexican artist. Frida composed verses, lyrics and texts for her husband that convey all these facets of their turbulent and passionate relationship.
Is it legitimate to invent new verbs? I want to give you one: I heaven you, so that my wings can extend immeasurably, to love you without borders.
The love? I do not know. If it includes everything, even the contradictions and overcoming of oneself, aberrations and the unspeakable, then yes, go for love.
Otherwise no.
My night would like you to be here to also insinuate itself inside you with tenderness.
My night awaits you, my body awaits you.
My night would like you to rest in the hollow of my shoulder and for me to rest in the hollow of yours.
I will look through the window of your eyes to see you.
An oblivion of words will form the exact language to understand the looks of our closed eyes.
I would like to give you everything you've never had, and even then you wouldn't know how wonderful it is to love you.
I want to be your home, your mother, your lover and your son ...
I will love you from the panorama you see, from the mountains, oceans and clouds, from the subtlest of smiles and sometimes from the deepest despair, from your creative sleep, from your deep or passing pleasure, from your own shadow or your own blood.
Choose a person who looks at you like it's magic.
I love you more than my own skin.
Since I fell in love with you, everything has transformed and is so full of beauty ... Love is like a perfume, like a current, like rain. You know, my heaven, you are like rain and I, like the earth, receive and welcome you.
I don't want a love in half, torn apart, split in two.
I deserve something whole, intense and indestructible.
Fall in love with you, with life and after whoever you want.
Frida Kahlo's phrases and reflections on life
The artist's aphorisms regarding her thoughts on life could not have been missing. For Frida Kahlo, existence has always been a mixture of conflicting feelings: pain, pleasure, suffering and happiness. All these aspects have been highlighted in his texts, of which we have reported the most significant extracts.
Each "tick-tock" is a second of life that passes, flees and does not repeat itself. And there is so much intensity and interest in it that the problem is just knowing how to live it.
Nothing is worth more than laughter and contempt. It is necessary to laugh and indulge. Be cruel and light.
Pain is not part of life, it can become life itself.
Beauty and ugliness are a mirage because others end up seeing our interiority.
Many times in pain we find the deepest pleasures, the most complex truths, the truest happiness.
Nobody is separated from anyone. Nobody fights for himself. All is one. Anguish and pain, pleasure and death are nothing more than a process of existing. The revolutionary struggle in this process is an open door to intelligence.
Death can be cruel, unjust, treacherous ...
But only life manages to be obscene, unworthy, humiliating.
Scars are openings through which one being enters the solitude of the other.
Frida Kahlo's best aphorisms about herself
Frida Kahlo has never given up on speaking in the first person, telling herself without veils. Here are some of her most beautiful quotes in which she reveals herself and her interiority.
I was born with a revolution. Let's face it. It is in that fire that I was born, ready for the impetus of the revolt until the moment of seeing the day. The day was scorching. It set me on fire for the rest of my life.
I am not sick. They are in ruins. But I'm happy as long as I can paint.
So absurd and fleeting is our passage through the world, that only reassures me to know that I have been authentic, that I have managed to be as similar to myself as I have been allowed to be.
What would I do without the absurd?
I do not deny my nature, I do not deny my choices, however you look at it I have been lucky in life.
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me, who feels bizarre and flawed in the same way I do. I would like to picture her, and imagine that she must be out there and that she is thinking of me too. Well, I hope, if you're out there and you have to read this, you know that yes, that's right, I'm here and I'm just as weird as you are.
I tried to drown my pains, but they learned to swim.
Life insists on being my friend and fate my enemy.
Diego Rivera's most beautiful phrases about Frida Kahlo
The Mexican artist wrote a lot about Diego Rivera and so did he. We have collected some of his aphorisms in which he talks about Frida as a woman, as an artist and as her great love.
July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my Frida, whom I would have loved forever. Only later did I realize that the best part of my life had been my love for Frida.
Through her paintings, Frida breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and female sexuality.
If I've ever loved a woman, the more I loved, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida Kahlo was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.
Never before has no woman put poetry on canvas in such a heartbreaking way as Frida did.
Frida Kahlo's emblematic poem: You deserve a love
Finally, we close this discovery of Frida Kahlo's poetic landscape with one of her most beautiful poems, You deserve a love. In this poem, the painter seems to exhort all women and herself to seek a complete and non-trivial love, a love that knows how to reassure without oppressing and that can transmit vitality and joy to those who feel it.
You deserve a love that wants you disheveled,
with everything and the reasons that make you get up quickly,
with everything and the demons that won't let you sleep.
You deserve a love that makes you feel safe,
able to eat the world when he walks beside you,
that he feels that your hugs are perfect for his skin.
You deserve a love that wants to dance with you,
that you find heaven every time he looks in your eyes,
never get bored of reading your expressions.
You deserve a love that listens to you when you sing,
that you lean on when you make a fool of yourself,
that you respect your being free,
to accompany you on your flight,
who is not afraid of falling.
You deserve a love that sweeps away the lies
that brings you the illusion,
the coffee
and poetry.
