Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father made me take three years of Latin in high school.
I will be a historical painter.
Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
I wanted to be a painter.
My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.
In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course I could play guitar better than him when I was about 12. But I couldn't paint better than him. So I went, 'I'm going to be the guitarist of the house, not the painter.'
Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.
I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost, but which places obligations on us.
I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.