I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.

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

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

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."

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

I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show work in Switzerland or somewhere else, everywhere else seems to be the provinces in a certain way. You wonder what your paintings are doing on the walls and you wonder who's looking at them.

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.