"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…"

"My paintings carries within it the message of pain… Painting completed my life. I lost three children… Painting substituted for all of this. I believe that work is the best thing."

"My painting is a message of pain. It is the result of the total destruction of my happiness."

"My painting carries with it the message of pain."

"At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can."