"Even deadly serious subjects like the liberation of Buchenwald in my painting World War II were filled with feminine subject matter—silver trays, demitasse cups and pastries."
"The French poet Robert Desnos was in Buchenwald; he had been arrested for his activities in the Resistance. The story is that Desnos and all the men in his barracks were marched to a room and told to strip in preparation for being deloused in an adjoining room."