"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
— Frida Kahlo
Mexican Painter
1907 - 1954
Do you paint the world as you see it or do you paint the world as it really is? Can we as artists and writers know the world as it really is? Or do we only experience a version of the world? Only what our eyes, ears and nose tell us is out there. Is the world we experience internal or external? Is the world we remember internal or external?
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Do you paint whatever passes through your mind? Or do you censure what you paint because you think others won't like it or won't appreciate it or won't buy it? Our minds often serve as judges who tell us what we should or shouldn't paint. Our minds often limit us and hold us back from producing the art we want to produce. Frida Kahlo was not that type of artist. She painted the pain she felt. She did not limit her art because she felt others wouldn't like it or understand it. She painted the world as she saw it.
Here is the movie trailer for the great movie of Frida Kahlo starring Salma Hayek. If you have not seen this movie, you need to see it today.
