I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

In my mind I lead a phantom's life. My neighbor makes me real.

-"you dress to impress"-"No Angel, I undress to impress

The Mind is everything. Do drugs. But just don't have drugs.

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

Let's get loose with Compassion. Let's drown in the delicious ambience of Love.

I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else.

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed.

To copy is to invite disaster.