It’s an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. 650
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. 709
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. 693
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics – they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled – even though it meant budgeting like crazy. 666
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty? 683
I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. 643
Writing is truly a creative art – putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. 604
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time’s malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day! 729
