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

I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

Many people say to me, "I saw [Miral] and it really stayed with me. I woke up the next day and really thought about it, and have been thinking about it for awhile." That was my goal.

Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see the show, that it was my dream. And I just remember what the paintings look like in the dream and I think, "Oh, nobody painted those. I can do that."

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.

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.