"My parents were both wonderful people, but they were not happy together. My mother was very religious, and my father was an atheist. It was a very strange combination."

"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 a mother, and I am not a wife. I am a painter."

"Why do I call him my Diego? He never was or will be mine. He belongs to himself."

"There are some people who are so much a part of your life that you just can't imagine living without them."