Remembering the Colorful Frida Kahlo on Her Birthday Natalie Roterman - Latin Times
go to original July 7, 2015

People look at the 1939 painting 'Las Dos Fridas' (The Two Fridas), by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo on exhibit in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. (Alejandro Acosta/AFP/Getty Images)

Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 and in her short-lived life became one of the most important Mexican icons, not only with her paintings, but with her strong, outspoken and enduring personality. Kahlo met fellow painter Diego Rivera, and they got married when she was 22 into what soon became a very explosive and passionate relationship. After an almost fatal train accident, Kahlo had to remain in bed for the last years of her life “being broken” as she described it and suffering from gangrene until she passed in 1954 at the age of 47.

On would have been Kahlo’s 108th birthday so we celebrated her empowering spirit with some of the artists best, and most representative quotes:

“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”

“I was born a bitch. I was born a painter.”

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

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

“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the train the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”

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