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Frida Kahlo
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“Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.”
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“I paint my own reality.”
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“[On her husband Diego Rivera:] I suffered two grave accidents in my life. One in which a steetcar knocked me down. ... The other accident is Diego.”
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“... I love you more than my own skin ...”
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“I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior!”
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“... I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.”
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“The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint always whatever passes through my head, without any other consideration.”
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“They thought I was Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
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“... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.”
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“I hope the exit is joyful — and I hope never to come back ...”
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“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
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“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
(1907 - 1954)
Full name: Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón de Rivera.