As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.
Andres Serrano
I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.
Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.
My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.
I am an artist first and a photographer second.
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.
Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.
I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.
I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.
Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.
I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.
I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.
My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.
One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.
I like the aesthetics of the Church.
I like Church furniture.
In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.
Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.
I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.
I am just an artist.
My work is intensely personal.
People have to find ways of explaining the work.
I have never voted in my life.
Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.
