There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
Some artists leave paintings. Frida left scars in sentences. The kind of frases that crawl under your skin, the ones you whisper back to yourself on bad nights or keep taped to a mirror. She wasn’t trying to be quotable. She was just being Frida, stubborn, broken, burning alive, in love, in pain, in color.
At Casa Azul in Coyoacán, you don’t just see her brushes and dresses. You feel her words hanging in the air. Her diary is there, pages soaked with ink and anger. Letters, corsets, even her death mask. Her voice is stitched into the rooms. That’s why people search for frida kahlo frases today, they want to grab onto her truth the way she did when the world was too heavy.
She said this after years in bed recovering from the bus accident. Painting was her survival, not just her profession.
The corsets, the braces, the medical diagrams she painted, all are still displayed in her house.
Even her simplest lines are soaked in poetry. Walk through her garden and you’ll see why.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
I love you more than my own skin. She wrote this in a letter to Diego. You can still feel that obsession hanging in Casa Azul, where their photos and paintings face each other.
Not everything was tragedy. Frida laughed at life, and at herself.
Her humor turned even against her own sadness.
“Bebí para ahogar mis penas, pero las condenadas aprendieron a nadar. Y ahora estoy abrumada por este decente y buen sentimiento.”, “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. And now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”
“La tragedia es lo más ridículo.”, “Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”
The Frida Kahlo Museum is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm. The last entry is at 5:30pm, but you’ll need at least 45 minutes to an hour to take it all in.
Casa Azul sits in Coyoacán, a historic neighborhood about 10 km south of Mexico City’s center.
Tip: Coyoacán is best explored on foot once you’re there, so wear comfortable shoes.
Driving is possible but not ideal. Casa Azul is in a narrow, residential neighborhood, and the museum has no dedicated parking lot.
One of her most recognized lines is “Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?” She wrote it after her foot amputation, turning pain into poetry. Other favorites include “I love you more than my own skin” and “I paint flowers so they will not die.”
Many of her diary entries and letters are preserved inside Casa Azul, the Frida Kahlo Museum in Coyoacán, Mexico City. Visitors can see her illustrated diary, medical notes, and letters to Diego Rivera and friends.
Yes. Her diary is one of the most personal artifacts in Casa Azul. It’s filled with drawings, splashes of paint, and emotional phrases like “I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.”
Most original writings are in Spanish, as Frida wrote them. However, museum guides, books, and audio guides often provide English translations. If you’re visiting, consider a guided tour to get the full context.
Photography is allowed in certain areas of the museum if you purchase a separate photo permit. Flash photography and tripods are not allowed. Some fragile documents, like her diary, cannot be photographed.