Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!

Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.

Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.

I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.