The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo had a difficult life, full of love and pain, and her artworks express it in every brushstroke. She will always be remembered as the woman who, despite her misfortune, left an impressive legacy in national and international art. Frida not only expressed her feelings in the paintings she created throughout her life but also in texts and phrases she wrote randomly in diaries, books, letters, or simple pieces of paper. Many of them were even spoken to those closest to her, while others remained in the air, passed from word to word. All of this is preserved in La Casa Azul , where she lived, in museums around the world, and in popular culture. We remember Frida Kahlo, her life, and the phrases she spoke from the depths of her being.
- “I need you so much my heart hurts,” dedicated to Diego Rivera during one of their many separations.
- “Fall in love with yourself, with life, and then with whoever you want,” found in her diary.
- "And one thing I can swear: I, who fell in love with your wings, will never want to cut them off."
- "Have a lover who looks at you like you're a bourbon biscuit." Referring to her fleeting lovers in Paris.
- "Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?" she wrote when she had her last operation and was told she would never walk again.
- "I paint flowers so they don't die."
- “I tried to drown my sorrows in liquor, but the damned things learned to swim,” she said at one of her many parties with friends.
- "I hope the departure is joyful, and I hope I never return." Before she died, she accepted the fact as a solution to her sadness.
- "What would I do without the absurd and the fleeting?"
- "I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality." This refers to surrealist art , a movement he never accepted as a part of, except with a single work. This speaks to the constant suffering he endured.
