Aphorisms - Frida Kahlo

“There is blood in the painting, there is death. I exist as a wounded woman. "

“I'm painting my own portrait. Because I'm mostly alone because I'm the person I know best. "

“I am suffering alone. I am in despair by myself. I bear everything alone. "

"If I'm going to be hopeless anyway, I have to be productive at least."

“I've had two major accidents in my life. One was Diego. On the other, a train nearly killed me. Diego was definitely much more destructive. ”

"I'm not ill. I'm just offended, but if I can paint as long as I live, I'll consider myself happy. "

"The best thing that happened to me is that I don't start to get used to the pain. "

"I always come back to you as a blind crush or never actually went from you. "

“I'm playing with life. I'm playing with the fire of life. My journey is proof of this. Between life and death. I take all the risks as if I was on the tightrope of the acrobat. "

"It's like I've been dancing to the wrong melody all my life. "

“Maybe I'm a tough woman. But I have such a big heart inside of me that you cannot imagine. "

"If I have a son one day, the first thing I want to teach him is that trying to win the hearts of the broken people will not lessen his manhood."

"Forty women in me. Forty women are strangers. Forty are the other..."

“Pain, pleasure, death. they are a phase of existence. The main thing is the door to intelligence. "

“I am a woman and I am not the woman you want. I am a woman as I want it. ”

“I've never painted dreams or nightmares. What I painted was my own truth. "

“One should constantly look for ways to deepen both his own and the thoughts of others. This is the key to understanding life. ”

"Art alone is a pioneer of all kinds of communal change ..."

"I paint flowers Lest they don't die."

"If one day everything goes well, I hope I still have the enthusiasm and desire."

"Painting completed my life."    

Bibliography;  

Haz; Murat K., (2020), Aforizmalar – Frida Kahlo, Birinci Basım, Siyah Beyaz Yayınları, İstanbul.  

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