"People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything."

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

"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."

"I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return."

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best"

"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."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."

"It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are."

"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."

"If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact."

"It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men."