The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

Painting completed my life.

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.