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

"I was born a bitch. I was born a painter."

"You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this world who are honest with themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts."

"I want to paint as much as I want, and I want to be able to live with my husband."

"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."