Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

My work is intensely personal.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.