Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

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.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.