"In my work, emotion is the raw material. What I mean is that I work with each of my paintings as if you could scratch through the surface of the canvas and find life teaming below. For this reason, my purpose is to craft each painting with the same raw materials that life itself works with: sentiments, longings, dreams, frustrations, the wish to overcome, to grow and to transcend. These impulses are not only inherent to human beings: we can see the same in every ant or bacteria.” Salustiano