"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 am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint."

"When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case."

"The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion."

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

"Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left."

"INJURY, n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight."