“Papi said we had broken the law by coming to the United States, but back then I didn’t understand much about laws. All I could think of was why there would be a law that would prevent children from being with their father.
“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
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“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
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“I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.”
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“I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. ”
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“Hearts are made to be broken.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
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