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Date of Birth:
August 15, 1950
Nationality:
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An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
Andres Serrano

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

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

I am an artist first and a photographer second.
Andres Serrano

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.
Andres Serrano

I am just an artist.
Andres Serrano

I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.
Andres Serrano

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

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

I have never voted in my life.
Andres Serrano

I like Church furniture.
Andres Serrano

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

I like the aesthetics of the Church.
Andres Serrano

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

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.
Andres Serrano

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.
Andres Serrano

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
Andres Serrano

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

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

My work is intensely personal.
Andres Serrano

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.
Andres Serrano

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

People have to find ways of explaining the work.
Andres Serrano

Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.
Andres Serrano

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.
Andres Serrano

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.
Andres Serrano


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