Who was Frida Kahlo? Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican painter whose main characteristics in her work are vibrant colors and inspiration from indigenous Mexican art. Even with many health problems, which accompanied her since childhood, she is considered as a symbol of endurance and perseverance.
She had a life marked by passions, suffering and a lot of pain. She never declared herself a feminist, but today she is seen as an icon of movements that fight for equality and rights for women, precisely because of the incisive way she positioned herself on politics, love and life in general.
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In addition, in her works, she portrayed intimate female issues never addressed in art, such as femicide, abortion, violence against women and childbirth.
“Feet, what do I want you for, if I have wings to fly?”
“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything spins, everything flies and disappears.”
“Life insists on being my friend, and my goal my enemy.”
“I never painted dreams, but my own reality.”
“There are some who are born with stars and others with a few more, and even if you don't want to believe it, I was born with constellations…”
“Can you invent verbs? I want to invent one: I sky you, so my wings become huge to love you without measure.”
“Walling your own suffering is risking it devouring you from within.”
“Beauty and ugliness are a mirage, because others always end up seeing our insides.”
“I am disintegration.”
“If I could give you anything in life, I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes. Only then would you realize how special you are to me.”
"What doesn't kill me, feeds me."
“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned ones learned to swim.”
“Now I live on a painful planet, transparent as ice. It's like I learned everything at once, in a matter of seconds. My friends and colleagues slowly became women. I aged in moments and now everything is dull and flat. I know there is nothing hidden; if there was, I would see it.”
“If there is life after death, don't wait for me, because I won't.”
“I paint myself because I am alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
“And what hurts most is living in a body that is the sepulcher that imprisons us, according to Plato, in the same way that the shell imprisons the oyster.”
“Pain, pleasure and death are nothing more than the process of existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is an open door to intelligence.”
