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My compulsion is to create things.
I work with things left over from other things.
You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.
It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting.
It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.
I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.
I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.
I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.
I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.
I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.
I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.
I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.
I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.
I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.
I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.
Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.
There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.
I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.
I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.
I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.
I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.
I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.
I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.
Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.
I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.
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.
The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.
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.
Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.
I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.
I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.
Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.
I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.
I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.
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.
Because I'm not doing it for the money, I'm doing it because I feel like that story needs to be told or clarified, or something needs to be shown about that.
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 don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.
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.
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.
Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.
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
Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.
When I'm making a movie, I don't like to know what's going to happen next. I like to watch something and be surprised all the time, and just not know, and let it take me wherever.
Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them?
Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.
Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...
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.