"Lebanese-born Raouf Rifai is one of the most significant figurative/abstract painters in the Middle East today.

Over the course of more than fourty years, he has produced a vibrant, compelling and expressive body of work in a range of media that is widely collected and internationally exhibited. His familiar signature style features strong colors and shapes, and expressionistic human figures and faces, with semantic elements leaving it to the viewer to decipher and connect to retrieve their underlying consistency."

- Joseph Tarrab, Raouf Rifai