The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art.

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

There is no must in art because art is free.

Everything starts from a dot.

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.

The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

I write to believe in goodness.

The last thing I wanted was to fall in love because, deep down, I remembered that love hurt.

Lust is the blessing of the fruit of the womb.

Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Deep in every heart slumbers a dream and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.