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

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

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

It's very hard to try to be a cultural . . . people who organize cultural things . . . it's very complicated. And more so in a country like Guatemala.

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!

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

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.