A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

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.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.