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

My compulsion is to create things.

In a certain way, my work had set me up to be against lots of things. If there wasn't some sort of sanction for it in the public world, it might have been...it wouldn't have been tolerated, because people don't want things to get shaken up.

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.

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

You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.