“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”

“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”

“I am what I am because I have made myself so.”

“I often paint self-portraits for it is I that know myself best-Freida Kahlo.”

“What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from - I cannot name it. But I am separated.”

“As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.”