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

I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.

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 want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.

Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.

I was a child who went about in a world of colors. My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.

You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.

There is nothing more precious than laughter.

I don’t know how to write love letters.

Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.

Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.

I love you more than my own skin.

Painting completed my life.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Great scientists are persevering and never deterred by difficulties

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

It’s always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.