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

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

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

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

I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.

I have never voted in my life.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.