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

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

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

I have never voted in my life.

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.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.