"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."

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."

"I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too."

"Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made."

"Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow"

"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember."

"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."