In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.
I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.
Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.
The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks.
Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.
Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we can digest.
Latinos have not historically been a culture that unites easily. We're very factioned - you have your Mexican Americans, your Puerto Ricans, your Cuban Americans, your Central Americans - and sometimes we focus on the differences more than the commonalities.
Be modest in your wants. . . There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.
The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.