Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people.
The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given.
I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.
I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.
People have to find ways of explaining the work.
I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.
My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.
In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
My work is intensely personal.
I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.
But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.
I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.
Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.