You Mustn't Always Believe What I Say.

Everybody Has The Same Energy Potential. The Average Person Wastes His In A Dozen Little Ways. I Bring Mine To Bear On One Thing Only: My Paintings, And Everything Else Is Sacrificed To It...myself Included.

Is There Anything More Dangerous Than Sympathetic Understanding?

To Copy Others Is Necessary, But To Copy Oneself Is Pathetic.

When You Make A Thing, A Thing That Is New, It Is So Complicated Making It That It Is Bound To Be Ugly. But Those That Make It After You, They Don't Have To Worry About Making It. And They Can Make It Pretty, And So Everybody Can Like It When Others Make It After You

If I Had Known There Was Such A Thing As Islamic Calligraphy, I Would Never Have Started To Paint. I Have Strived To Reach The Highest Levels Of Artistic Mastery, But I Found That Islamic Calligraphy Was There Ages Before I Was.