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 have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

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

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

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

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.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

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

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

When everyone wanted to be successful, I wanted to be resourceful so that I could help everyone to be successful.

The one who can make full sense of love and lives within its narrow expections undresses no weeping face.

The dream came again—three times in three nights and always at the first of the year.

A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.

People are the story they tell themselves.

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.