Andres Serrano Quotes

People have to find ways of explaining the work.

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 have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

I am just an artist.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.

I have never voted in my life.

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.

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.