Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Time goes by fast, and people go in and out of your life so quickly, so you should never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it's a luxury I can't afford.