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.

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.

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.

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.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition.

My bedroom is so messy, if I died of natural causes, the cops would be like no he didn't, clearly there was a struggle.

I've always been an optimist.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.

Cooking is revolution and creation.