"People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything."

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

"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."

"I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return."

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

"I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior."

"It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us."

"The image is one thing and the human being is another, it's very hard to live up to an image."

"To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring."

"I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose."

"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all."

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"