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.

Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.