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

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...

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

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.

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.

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

I work with things left over from other things.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

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.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

The Decision...I wiped my hands on my pinaforenow sullied and stainednot crisp or pressedas it had been before...

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Christianity ruined emperors but saved peoples.

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

When I don't say a word and you know exactly what I mean.

Be kind to the living.

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.

Loving someone is tiring and it hurts, but it's not something I can stop.