--- title: "Best Frida Kahlo Sayings" description: "Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifac..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frida-kahlo-36327.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Frida Kahlo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frida-kahlo-36327.jpg) # Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Painter Mexico **83** quotes in **305** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Frida Kahlo was a painter from Mexico, best known for *Frida Kahlo*. ## Quick Facts About Frida Kahlo Born July 6, 1907 Died July 13, 1954 Nationality Mexico Profession Painter Notable works Frida Kahlo Known for The Two Fridas, Still Life: Pitahayas Spouse Diego Rivera ## About Frida Kahlo Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. Her 1940 self-portrait titled The Dream holds the record for the most expensive work by a female artist ever auctioned, at $54.7 million. ## Quotes by Frida Kahlo · Page 3 > [There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frida-kahlo/there-have-been-two-great-accidents-in-my-life-one-was-the-trolley/) [Frida Kahlo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frida-kahlo/) [Accidents](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accidents/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/960/frida-kahlo-7157_accidents_there-have-been-two-great-accidents-in-m_2358253.jpg) > [I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frida-kahlo/i-leave-you-my-portrait-so-that-you-will-have-my-presence-all-the/) [Frida Kahlo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frida-kahlo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/frida-kahlo-7157_leave_i-leave-you-my-portrait-so-that-you-will_497901.jpg) > [“What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frida-kahlo/what-i-wanted-to-express-very-clearly-and-intensely-was-that-the/) [Frida Kahlo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frida-kahlo/) [Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6c/frida-kahlo-7157_death_what-i-wanted-to-express-very-clearly-an_2400785.jpg) ## Frida Kahlo by topic [Artist (17)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/frida-kahlo/) [Painting (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/painting/frida-kahlo/) [Life (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/frida-kahlo/) [Inspirational (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inspirational/frida-kahlo/) [Art (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/frida-kahlo/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frida-kahlo/#itemlist", "name": "Frida Kahlo Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There have been two great accidents in my life. 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