It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting.

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.

I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.

I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.

There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the paintings and they don't - they may go, "okay," and then look at it in a different sort of way. Instead of just looking at it as some type of wild art, they look at it in a historical perspective or context.