"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…"

"I am my own muse, the subject I know best."

"The most important thing for everyone is to be able to live and be happy."

"The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else's - my madness would not be an escape from 'reality'."

"Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain."