I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic! Luis Gonzalez More Quotes by Luis Gonzalez More Quotes From Luis Gonzalez In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or your neighbors or your fellow students because there is no way to make sense of this. It's what Emily would have wanted. Luis Gonzalez kindness love memories You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it. Luis Gonzalez lottery-ticket tickets winning 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. Luis Gonzalez want trying thinking I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things. Luis Gonzalez destiny impossible thinking When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make a book of your art. You don't decide the title, you don't decide the size, the order of the photographs . . . so it's completely out of control! Luis Gonzalez order book art 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. Luis Gonzalez building want trying I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people. Luis Gonzalez dollars giving people 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. Luis Gonzalez important artist fun 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. Luis Gonzalez new-york museums art 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. Luis Gonzalez trying country people Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that. Luis Gonzalez art interesting thinking I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala. Luis Gonzalez use trying country If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable. Luis Gonzalez inexplicable ifs Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility. Luis Gonzalez sadness important order The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world. Luis Gonzalez guatemala people firsts Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down. Luis Gonzalez outsiders people looks 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. Luis Gonzalez knows thinking Our understanding so far is that families under the MPP program are now being released into the United States after coming to court. Luis Gonzalez politics Around 100 tonnes of powder, 2.6 million detonators, 99 projectiles and around 3,000 cannon shells were found, the documentation that the captain had in regards to the merchandise that was being transported in the China-flagged vessel did not correspond to what we found. Luis Gonzalez world I found the tickets. But it was like $1,500 for four people. So I said, 'Eh, I can go back and forth with the gas in my car,'. Luis Gonzalez top-news
