All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.

Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float on its own.

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint.

All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.

I don't want to always be doing the same old thing.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.

It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else

Sometimes you want to curl up and cry until you can cry no more. But you realize that that would leave you exposed and vulnerable. So you turn, and realize that there is no one to turn to.

- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!?- You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.

In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.