“I paint my reality and no one else’s.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Introduction
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Introduction
“Art is a liberator. It frees, it allows me to express my emotions.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Wife of the Master Muralist
“Painting has a magical quality. It has to be transmitted to the viewer.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Rise of Another Rivera
“To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Rise of Another Rivera
“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Ribbon Around Bomb
“Painting completed my life.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Introduction
“I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Ribbon Around Bomb
“Art is a way to know the world; to see things that otherwise you wouldn’t see.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Frida: Landscape of Herself
“My painting carries within it the message of pain.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Introduction
“I believe that the best work is a result of genuine interest in what one creates.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, A Picture of Frida Kahlo
“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Frida: Landscape of Herself
“Art is the joy of the soul interacting with canvas.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Frida Kahlo: An Aesthetic Investigation
“Every good artist paints what he is.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Introduction
“I am interested in the form as much as in the content, all must be filled with emotion, the art must be felt.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, A Picture of Frida Kahlo
“The colors I choose are the colors of Mexico.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Frida: Landscape of Herself
“Art is the best way to say things that cannot be said any other way.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, A Picture of Frida Kahlo
“Through my work, I express my life and its events.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Ribbon Around Bomb
“I am not a surrealist. I never was. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Introduction
“Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.”
~ Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview, Frida Kahlo: An Aesthetic Investigation
References
Kahlo, F. (2020). Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview and Other Conversations. Melville House.