100+ Frida Kahlo Famous Quotes That Inspire & Empower

I am my own muse, the subject I know best.

Pain, pleasure, and death are inseparable from one another.

I have suffered more than anyone ever knows.

The most important thing for everyone is to love themselves.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Nothing is worth more than laughter.

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world.

I am broken, but I am whole.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

I tried to drown my sorrows, but they learned how to swim.

Only one mountain can know the heart of another.

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

I have loved you since I met you, and I will love you until I die.

I love you more than my own skin.

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, I shall be there with you.

I hope the leaving is joyful; I hope never to return.

You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few good ones.

I am crazy about you, Diego, crazy as a cooing dove.

Love me, love my dog, and love my thorns.

Passion is the bridge between dreams and reality.

To love is to risk everything, even your soul.

I lived with a broken heart, and I painted my broken heart.

Each time you suffer, you love more deeply.

I would rather live my life full of contradictions than be false to myself.

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

I am not a surrealist. I am the reality.

I am who I am. I am not going to spend my life apologizing for it.

They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.

I am my own heroine.

I don’t paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

I express my inner universe.

To be born female is tough, but to live as one is tougher.

I am not free, yet I feel freer than ever.

I am not beautiful. I am me.

I am not ashamed of my scars. They are part of my story.

Women hold up half the sky.

Being born a woman is complicated enough.

I belong to a generation of women who fight for their rights.

I am not a man-hater. I simply believe women should be free.

A woman must learn to be her own hero.

We are all born equal. The rest is up to us.

Power is not given to you. You have to take it.

Feminism is about choice, not anger.

I paint women how I see them, not how men want them seen.

I am not a victim. I am a survivor.

My art is my rebellion.

I wear my strength like jewelry.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

Art is the only way I can express what words cannot.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Painting completed my life.

I paint my own reality. That’s the only thing I know how to do.

Creativity is the mirror of the soul.

Without art, I would have died long ago.

Color is my passion, my rebellion, my voice.

I paint to forget my problems, and sometimes I forget to paint.

Every time I paint, I heal a little.

I put my hopes and fears on canvas.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Of course I am frightened of death, but I am more afraid of not living fully.

I joyfully await the exit — and I hope never to return.

Death dances behind me all the time.

I have a deep fear of dying, but I don’t fear death itself.

I sit at the edge of life and stare into the abyss.

I have been dying since I was born.

Life is nothing without passion.

I would love to leave this world laughing.

I am tired of being bones and flesh.

I carry death within me like a second heartbeat.

Dying is just another way of beginning.

I hope the last thing I see is the color green.

I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.

I have a thousand reasons to give up, but I choose to fight.

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do, but from overcoming what you once thought you couldn’t.

Even if I lose my legs, I’ll keep dancing.

I’ve been strong for so long, I forgot what weakness felt like.

I don’t need pity. I need understanding.

I stand not because I have to, but because I choose to.

Scars are proof that I’ve fought battles worth remembering.

I am not fragile. I am fierce.

When life knocks me down, I paint my way back up.

My body may be broken, but my spirit is unshakable.

I turn pain into power every single day.

Nature is my church.

I am one with the earth, the trees, the animals.

Plants feel pain just like we do.

I collect plants the way others collect jewels.

The roots of a tree are like the veins of the earth.

I find God in the leaves and the wind.

Animals are purer than people.

The monkey is my protector, my child, my conscience.

I speak to the flowers as if they were my friends.

The hummingbird brings messages from the spirit world.

I am not separate from nature. I am nature.

My garden is my sanctuary, my temple, my soul.

I am a communist because I care about people, not profits.

Art must serve the people.

Revolution is not a dream. It is a necessity.

I fight for the poor because I have known poverty.

Freedom is not given. It is taken.

I paint the truth, even when it makes the powerful uncomfortable.

Socialism is the only path to justice.

I stand with the workers, the farmers, the forgotten.

Politics is personal. My art is political.

Diego taught me that art must change the world.

I wear my politics like my Tehuana dress—with pride.

The revolution lives in every brushstroke.

Hope is the only thing stronger than pain.

I laugh because I have no other weapon.

Joy is an act of resistance.

I find beauty in broken things.

Happiness is a choice I make every morning.

I dance even when my feet don’t work.

Color is my medicine.

I celebrate life, even when it hurts.

Sunlight is my favorite pigment.

I paint joy because sorrow already paints itself.

Smiling is my rebellion.

I choose to bloom, even in the cracks.