When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.
I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.
I remember my mom saying that after you have a baby you get really thin. So you gain all that weight and then you just lose it and keep losing it.
My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'
My mom, she was unbelievable. She ran the whole town. She was like the mayor. There would be 15 people eating at our lunch table. She'd drag people from the street.
I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.
