Frida Kahlo citáty

Frida Kahlo, narodená ako Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón bola mexická maliarka začiatku 20. storočia. Bola manželkou maliara Diega Riveru a milenkou komunistického revolucionára Leva Trockého.

Bola predstaviteľkou surrealizmu. K maľovaniu ju priviedla nešťastná nehoda - v 18 rokoch cestovala v autobuse do ktorého narazila električka. Následne zostala na lôžku a z nudy začala maľovať. S následkami nehody sa vyrovnávala celý život. Zo začiatku ju ovplyvnil kubizmus. Zanechala po sebe viac ako 200 obrazov, najmä autoportréty.

V roku 2002 natočila americká režisérka Julie Taymorová biografický film v americko-mexickej koprodukcii s názvom Frida, v hlavnej úlohe so Salmou Hayekovou. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. júl 1907 – 13. júl 1954
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“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”

Varianta: Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

“Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly.”

Pies, para qué los quiero
Si tengo alas para volar.
Diary illustration, dated 1953, preceding a foot amputation in August of that year; reproduced on page 415 of Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983)
1946 - 1953

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

Quoted in Time Magazine, "Mexican Autobiography" (27 April 1953)
1946 - 1953
Varianta: I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”

Zdroj: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.”

Quote in a letter to Ella Wolfe, "Wednesday 13," 1938, as cited in Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983) ISBN 0-06-091127-1 , p. 197. In a footnote (p.467), Herrera writes that Kahlo had heard this joke from her friend, the poet José Frías.
1925 - 1945
Varianta: I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.

“I want to be inside your darkest everything”

Zdroj: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”

Varianta: I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim, and now decency and good behavior weary me.

“I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human.”

Quote of Frida Kahlo, in her letter from US, during the 1930s, from https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/09/kah2-s11.html
1925 - 1945

“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”

Quoted from: Antonio Rodríguez, "Una pintora extraordinaria," Así (17 March 1945)
1925 - 1945
Varianta: I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

“I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down… The other accident is Diego.”

Quote in Imagen de Frida Kahlo by Gisèle Freund in Novedades (Mexico City) (10 June 1951)
1946 - 1953

“There is nothing more precious than laughter”

Zdroj: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

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