“I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.”

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.

I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.

The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

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

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty – love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

While we breathe, we will hope.

I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death.

Don’t confuse me with those who cling to hope.

When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time”.You have more potential than you believe you do.

You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.