Frida Kahlo Quotes

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Frida Kahlo

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• I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Inspiration
  • Movies
  • Video

• If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Go
  • Chef

• Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Friends
  • House
  • Dad

• It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Act
  • Smoke
  • Absurd

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Man
  • Dreams
  • Generation

• I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Information

• Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Working
  • Modeling

• Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Religion
  • More

• I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Start

• By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • City
  • Best
  • Hockey

• I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Happy
  • Reading
  • Passion

• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Work
  • Ultimate

• People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Government
  • Politics

• You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • True
  • Nature
  • Want

• I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Always
  • Force
  • Some

• 'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Night
  • Moon
  • Romantic

• The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Knowledge
  • Judge
  • Situation

• I came out when I was 13 and started to become more open about liking boys, and I still ended up dating girls and boys. It seems to be the natural progression from where I was, but it wasn't a shock to anyone that I was close with.

  

  Michael J. Willett
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Open

• Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Death
  • Cream
  • Half-used

• I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

  

  Frida Kahlo
  • Reality