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

- Tawfiq Al-Hakim

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 res…

- Tawfiq Al-Hakim

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, sho…

- Tawfiq Al-Hakim

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

- Tawfiq Al-Hakim

In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today art has to…

- Tawfiq Al-Hakim