There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

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

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

I have never voted in my life.

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

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

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