The Persian art is great, I feel compelled to tell you this my Mouguch [pet name for his wife], because it pleases me so much. I adore those sick and lovely Persian – civilization which reveals there ancient custom's to me, which is deeply impregnated with my own.

p. 356: in a letter to his wife Mougouch Gorky, late Summer 1947 - 'Arshile Gorky, – Goats on the roof' (2009)