"I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the most frank expression of myself."

"I wish I could write all the things I feel, but I can't."

"I am not a mother, and I am not a wife. I am a painter."

"I was born with an open wound, and colors pouring from it. Don't call me brave or a martyr; I'm just a woman who learned to love even in the midst of pain. I am a brush, I am a scream, I am broken fle…"

"Why do I call him my Diego? He never was or will be mine. He belongs to himself."