"I am not sick. I am broken. But, I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint."

"I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of pain."

"My greatest wish is to give you a painting that expresses my love for you."

"You didn't understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure. I am essence. I am an idiot. I am tenacious. I am. I simply am."

"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.…"