"I can paint and draw. I do not talk about it. It is my gift. I do not know how other people feel, but I know how I feel and what I do."

"There is no self-portrait of myself. I am not interested in my own person as a subject for painting, but rather in others, especially women, and, more than that, in other appearances."

"Art is a journey, not a destination."

"I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work."

"I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for painting than I am in other people, above all women, but other subjects are more interesting to me."