“I am a sick man… I am a wicked man. An unattractive man.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Notes from Underground
Я человек больной... Я злой человек. Непривлекательный я человек.
Part 1, Chapter 1 (page 7)
Notes from Underground (1864)
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
Quoted in Time Magazine, "Mexican Autobiography" (27 April 1953)
1946 - 1953
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Quoted from: Antonio Rodríguez, "Una pintora extraordinaria," Así (17 March 1945)
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Variant: I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.