Beautiful Frida Kahlo quotes to inspire your day

'I love you more than my own skin'
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There's nothing like reading up on an inspiring woman to make you question why you haven't accomplished more in life. The iconic Mexican painter Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón (best known as Frida Kahlo) was poetic, painfully passionate and a woman ahead of her time.

She also knew a thing or two about pain and survival. Frida used her personal self portraits as a way of dealing with trauma in her life, from a trolley accident when she was 18 that left her bedridden recovering from fractures to her spine, ribs and a shattered pelvis for a year, to her stormy relationship with painter Diego Rivera, to her miscarriage after a punctured uterus left her unable to have children. 

Her life's work of around 200 paintings, mostly self-portraits, deals with these struggles. However her words and letters are as striking as her paintings, and so to commemorate what would have been her birthday this week, here are some of her best quotes to pour over today...


'Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.'


'Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?'

'I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.'

'I was born a bitch. I was born a painter.'

'I love you more than my own skin.'

'Diego was everything; my child, my lover, my universe.'



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


'At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.'

'I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.'

'I want to be inside your darkest everything.'

'Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.'

'Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.'

'I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.'



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