To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

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 flowers so they will not die.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.