I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

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 never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

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

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

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