"I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive."

"I paint my own reality. 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 hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return."

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

"I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior."

"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint."

"To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house."

"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . .."

"The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope."

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."

"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures..."

"War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."