"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"
"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."
"I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return. "
"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality."
"I love you more than my own skin."
"They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."
"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you."
"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint."