Andres Serrano Quotes
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine. 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. Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself. I am an artist first and a photographer second. I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church. I am just an artist. I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work. I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts. I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious. 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 never voted in my life. I like Church furniture. I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones. I like the aesthetics of the Church. I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones. I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work. I usually refer to myself as Hispanic. In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions. My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional. My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.
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