Tawfiq Al-Hakim Quotes

What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.

When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.

There is always a state of anxiety, of searching and delving for style.

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.