Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint My Reality'
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“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
“... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.”
“The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.”
“I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.”
“I love you more than my own skin.”
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
“I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”
“I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”