Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.

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.