Frida Kahlo in her artist quotes on painting & Mexican life - free resource, art history

Frida Kahlo in quotes - the woman-artist on painting and her life in Mexico - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers of art history

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Frida Kahlo’s artist quotes report about the many self-portraits and auto-biographic paintings she painted on her personal life experiences in Mexico. But also about her physical suffering and limitations we can read, and her complex relation with her husband Diego Rivera, the Mexican mural painter. Kahlo created personal artworks which tell the story of her emotional experiences in her life.

Kahlo had a volatile marriage with artist Diego Rivera. She had lifelong health problems, caused by a traffic accident she just survived as a teenager. She recovered only partly, which created isolation from other people. This influenced Frida’s paintings - many of them are auto-biographical self-portraits.
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Some selected artist-quotes of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo - as a short introduction of her extended quotes in the PDF:

• …not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was, was a game for me… …Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice; but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds. - quote from Kahlo’s letter to Alejandro Arias, Sept. 1926

• I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. - quote of Kahlo, cited in ‘Una pintora extraordinaria’, March 1945

• ’I am a poor little deer.’ - Frida’s written line on a photograph, she gave Diego in 1946

• ’They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality’ - Frida Kahlo’s quote: in Time Magazine, ‘Mexican Autobiography’, 27 April 1953

• ’I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.’ - her quote in Time Magazine, ‘Mexican…’
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  links for selected free art-resources on Mexican painter-artist Frida Kahlo:

  • biographical notes on Frida Kahlo, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Frida Kahlo, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
  • images of the painting art of Frida Kahlo, Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Kahlo
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]