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.

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.

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

You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it.

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.

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

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.

I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

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.

I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

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

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

If you don’t figure out your main reason of being born, chances are that, you will fall into another plan which is unlikely to make you to print out your bigger picture!

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today but you will be a great deal older.

Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.

I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.

I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

At the KFC there's, lot of black people there innit *laughs*