I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.

My ideas are all the same but look different.

I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there, at the disposal of all.

Roads taken far away from you are many. Do not fear, Mother; they all lead back.

Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

The Jews detests the spirit of the nation in the midst of which they live.

If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.

I don't have a lot of friends.

If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.