I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.

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

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.