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1. I don’t know how to write love letters.
2. I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
3. My painting carries with it the message of pain.
4. I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
5. The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.
6. 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.
7. I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
8. I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
9. My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
10. I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
11. Painting completed my life.
12. I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
13. Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
14. They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
15. 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.
16. I was a child who went about in a world of colors… My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
17. I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
18. Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
19. I paint flowers so they will not die.
20. I love you more than my own skin.