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

“I am what I am; Not because I like myself but because I don't have the courage to change.”

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

“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.”

“..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.”

“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”