"The most beautiful things are often the most fragile."

"I painted the same picture over and over again, the same feelings."

"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."

"In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head."

"Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls."