If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

You never know who will see your images hanging. And I like that. I think you never really have control over the things that you do.

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

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make a book of your art. You don't decide the title, you don't decide the size, the order of the photographs . . . so it's completely out of control!

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.

I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.