"I am not an alcoholic. I am a drunkard."

"I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim."

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

"My paintings carries within it the message of pain… Painting completed my life. I lost three children… Painting substituted for all of this. I believe that work is the best thing."

"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you."