I love my country, and it hurts not to be able to see my country, as I did for so many years. I hope that I will one day be able to live in a peaceful Colombia.

I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.