Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.

What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The happiness of every living thing is what we want.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.