如果让我选择世界上两个我最喜欢的画家,我只选Frida Kahla 和Salvador Dali. 如果只让我选一个的话,那就是Frida. 最近朋友们在讨论写作的目的,请看Frida怎么说的:
"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."
"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."
这就是我想说的。有朋友曾劝阻我不要这样早就写传记小说,我也许要活300年呢,而我只过了30年,着什么急? 但是还有什么题材能让我如此刻骨铭心,痛彻心肺的呢?
那天去玫瑰岗墓地,好大的一片园子里都是死人。加州没有新英格兰那样的墓碑,只有一个个小铜牌刻着人的名字和生辰忌日。一个挨着一个,没有间隙和空挡,就这样。
人死成灰,留下什么,不留下什么都由不得我们。
写那些刺痛你心最深的东西,这是最有生命力的,因为它们都带着血和你为写作掉下的肉。
"I suffered two grave accidents in my life. One in which a streetcar knocked me down.....The other accident is Diego."
"Being the wife of Diego is the most marvelous thing in the world. I let him play matrimony with other women. Diego is not anybody's husband and never will be, but he is a great comrade."
"My painting carries with it the message of pain.....Painting completed my life.....I believe that work is the best thing."
"I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was."
"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you."
Recalling her hospitalization in 1950, Frida said, "I never lost my spirit. I always spent my time painting, because they kept me going with Demerol, and this animated me and it made me feel happy....I joked around, I wrote, they brought me movies....I cannot complain".
At her last exhibition in Mexico, Frida told reporters, "I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint".
"O'Keefe was in the hospital for three months, she went to Bermuda for a rest. She didn't make love to me that time, I think on account of her weakness. Too bad."
"I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior."
- Re: The Quotes of Frida Kahloposted on 04/16/2003
maya wrote:
> I am happy that she ignored you also.
She didn't know me so she didn't have a chance to ignore me whereas I saw her stuff and didn't care much which of course would not slightly dwindle her statue in her followers' eyes. Right? - Re: The Quotes of Frida Kahloposted on 04/16/2003
起码她感动了我这个观者。 近年来,Frida越来越polular,甚至有Kahloism这个词出现。怎么我一喜欢上,没过6.7年,大家都喜欢了? 8年前第一次去她与Diego的故居, 喜欢极了。3年后,又去了一次。 因为台湾朋友成寒在翻译她的传记,我们去照一些照片。
Frida的画现在是世界女画家中标价最高的。而她只是一个躺在床上,靠打吗啡止痛的受伤女人。 - Re: The Quotes of Frida Kahloposted on 04/16/2003
I have absolutely nothing else but super abundant self-confidence. What are you talking about?
Painter has every right to be oneself, to project one's perception of the world. But I have my right of not hanging one of these in my bedroom to stiffen my bones and to stand on my head. I will make concession in case someone wants to give me one of these expensive paintings on the condition I hang it in the bedroom for one night. But rest assured you will find it on e-bay the very next morning.
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