I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

All Children are Artists

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.

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.

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.