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

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."

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.

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

I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunately, their voices are not necessarily heard as loudly as they should be.

You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.

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