“I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.”

Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step.

For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind.

We don’t usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.

Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.

Darkness is where we begin and where we end.

It is the first cry after birth

Events of early Monday July 14, 1958 [Coup in Iraq] had convinced me that hate is the most destructive force in our life.

I have to display what I have seen to people.

Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test.

Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life.

Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.

Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital… dying, and I have to introduce life into them again… my duty was to compete with death.

Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil.

The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.

As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power.

Art should stimulate.

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

One thing I gained in my life is just the need for more Jesus in my life. You never come to a place in your walk with Jesus where you feel like you’ve had enough. That’s a dangerous feeling to have.

Delay always breeds danger.

Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent ‘carbon summer’.

Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.