I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

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. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.

It was worthwhile to come here only to see why Europe is rottening, why all this people - good for nothing - are the cause of all the Hitlers and Mussolinis.

Painting completed my life.

I love you more than my own skin.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.