Quotes from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

Frida Kahlo ·  296 pages

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“I want to be inside your darkest everything”
― Frida Kahlo, quote from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait


“pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence”
― Frida Kahlo, quote from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait


“There is nothing more precious than laughter”
― Frida Kahlo, quote from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait


“No moon, sun, diamond, hands —
fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea.
pine green, pink glass, eye,
mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.”
― Frida Kahlo, quote from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait


“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
― Frida Kahlo, quote from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait



“to feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves”
― Frida Kahlo, quote from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait


“You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress of fabrics, the color of colors, the wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells, the war and the sun, everything experienced in the minutes of the non-clocks and the non-calendars and the empty non-glances, is him.”
― Frida Kahlo, quote from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait


“I have not forgotten you — the nights are long and difficult. You too know that all my eyes see, all touch with myself, from any distance, is you. The caress of fabrics, the color of colors, the wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells, the war and the sun, everything experienced in the minutes of the non-clocks and the non-calendars and the empty non-glances, is you. You felt it, that’s why you let that ship take me away from Le Havre where you never said good-bye to me. I will write to you with my eyes, always. For you is all.”
― Frida Kahlo, quote from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait


“everything exists, and moves, under only one law = life =”
― Frida Kahlo, quote from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait


About the author

Frida Kahlo
Born place: in Coyoacán, Mexico
Born date July 6, 1907
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