Oscar Rabin, The Smoked and the Salted

"In my pictures I express as fully as possible those moods and sensations that it is possible to express with the aid of painting. In a certain sense my works would be my diary if I were a writer. In them I transmit my impressions of life, but, of course, colored by my mood, that is to say in a very subjective, very partial way. I am often told that my works have a social significance. I don't know. It is simply that so-called social movements are interpreted by me in the same subjective way, they influence my mood and condition and, naturally, are also reflected to some extent in my pictures".