Andres Serrano Quotes
"My work is intensely personal."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Work)
"I usually refer to myself as Hispanic."
- Andres Serrano
"In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Work, Obsessions)
"My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Photography)
"My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Work)
"I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Work)
"I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Church, Christ, Problems)
"Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Love, Hate, Vice)
"One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Life, Artist)
"Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: People)
"Whenever possible, I operate outside the system."
- Andres Serrano
"I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones."
- Andres Serrano
"People have to find ways of explaining the work."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Work, People)
"I am an artist first and a photographer second."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Artist, First)
"I like the aesthetics of the Church."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Church, Aesthetics)
"I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Work)
"An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Artist, Nothing, Obsessions)
"Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Act, Being)
"I am just an artist."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Artist)
"I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts."
- Andres Serrano
"I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Work, Religious)
"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."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: People)
"I have never voted in my life."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Life)
"I like Church furniture."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Church)
"I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Church, Spiritual)
"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
(Related: Christian, Church, Being, Right, Today)