“Be grateful with what you have - by looking at those who have less than you.”

“Abu Hurayra reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Look at those who are lower than you and do not look at those who are higher than you. That is more likely to prevent you underestimating the blessing of Allah on you."”

“I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much… imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass.”

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.”

“Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.”

“If you want to learn a culture, you have to learn how to like what it likes, rather than go looking for something that you like.”

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it much.”

“Look behind you: What have you learned?
Look around you: What is happening to others?
Look above you: What does God expect of you?
Look besides you: What resources are available to you?”

“But trying to be a painter did teach me to look at the world in a very particular way—looking very closely at things, at colors, at how things form themselves in space — and I've always been grateful for that. You have all this space, and you have a figure: what do you do with it? And in a way that’s what all art is. How do we find a place for our creatures, or inventions, in this incoherent space into which we’re thrown?”

“Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look.”