There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

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.

We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

The movie [Miral] is not pro-Palestinian. It's about Palestinians. It's a Palestinian story, written by a Palestinian person. I don't know anybody else that could have done that

I don't know if I could, like, see a face and know what the face of beauty looks like, but after I've seen it I know if I've felt like it was beauty.

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