"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 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."

"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint."

"Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one."

"Virginity is in the lies of the beholder."

"To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings."

"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it."

"Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!"

"Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear."