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

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

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

"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. “…"

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

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

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

"It doesn't matter if it's art or digging a ditch, building an airplane or making a sculpture, what matters is that it…"