"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 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."

"Start slow and taper off."

"If it is to be, it is up to me."

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."

"What we should have fought for was representation without taxation."

"God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart."

"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."