"I'm interested in stepping outside the traditional role of arts, the creation of beautiful paintings bought by wealth…"

"(You have mentored so many young people. Who was a mentor for you?) Gilbert Roland, the actor. He was one of the firs…"

"In some ways, we didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us"

"I was expanding the role of women in my own thoughts. I wanted to break all the rules. Women don’t build in massive s…"

"I always thought I’d make a work and it’d go out into the ether, never to be seen again or spoken about,” she said. “…"

"My work has been ignored a lot in LA … and the men here have been pretty profoundly unable to see women as their peer…"

"Murals can do some amazing work in the world, because they live in the places where people live and work, because the…"

"Judy Baca is one of our great feminist artists...She has not received the kind of attention she should have received …"

"Arts are a magnificent way to deal with multilingual people. Arts are an entryway."

"I will hire anyone who has the will and the capacity and will put down a knife for brushes! The deal was, no violence…"