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“I am a mixture.”

 

Happy birthday, Frida Kahlo! Here are some quotes from the artist.

“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”

“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”

“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.”

“A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was was a game for me.

If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning elucidated the earth. Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice, but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds. My friends, my companions became women slowly, I became old in instants and everything today is bland and lucid. I know that nothing lies behind. If there was something, I would see it…”

“I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.”

 

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