"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."

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

"My work is the synthesis of my life, my love, my fears, my pains, my desires, my dreams, my hopes, my beliefs, my thoughts, and my struggles."

"It's not love, or tenderness, or affection, it's life itself, my life, that I found what I saw it in your hands, in your month and in your breasts. I have the taste of almonds from your lips in my mou…"