“I think we need a huge dose of love.”

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.

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

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.

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O’Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.

In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

Rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.

CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement.