Frida Kahlo Quotes

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

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

You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

Every good painter paints what he is.

I write what I see; I paint what I am.

When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.

My work is has always been very, very personal.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Art is my life and my life is art.

Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.