“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”

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.

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

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.

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

I want to be inside your darkest everything.

My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

I don’t believe in praying to win.

Mistakes were made. Mine was, believing that you loved me & yours, well you know what you did.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.

One can only dream and hope things will work out with time.

Our ego wants to understand logic, our soul wants to believe in the unseen.