Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.