"I’ve seen through the progression of time, the ways in which we became many things. As I get older I could take part in the birth of a new generation. My sister specifically has been a mark on many steps of my life and part of the backbone of many paintings. I’ve seen her becoming, her first steps, the many nuances of our growing up and now adulthood. As she became a mother I became an uncle, and now I can once more watch the first steps of a new life." - Samuel de Saboia