Andres Serrano Quotes

• 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.

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  People, Groups, Able

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• I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

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  Trying, Direct

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• I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious. I would say that there are many individuals in the Church who appreciate it and who do not have a problem with it. The best place for Piss Christ is in a church.

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  Religious, Appreciate, Church

  "Blasphemy and Public Funding of the Arts" by Jacques Berlinerblau, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 22, 2012.

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• There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

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  Art, Looks, Provocative

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

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  Artist, Civilization, Triumph

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• An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

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  Art, Artist, Obsession

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• 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.

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  Christian, Catholic, Church

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• I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while.

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  Thinking, Certainty In Life, Normal

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• My work is intensely personal.

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  Grooming, Personal Grooming

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• I am an artist first and a photographer second.

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  Photography, Artist, Firsts

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• Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

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  Hate, Vices, Vice Versa

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

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  Smart, Thinking, Someday

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

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  Believe, Icons

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

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  Spiritual, Church, Reason

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

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  Color, Political, Born

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

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  Real, Catholic, Church

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

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  Felt

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

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  Thinking, Should, Hispanic

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

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  Religious, Sacrilegious, Felt

  "Blasphemy and Public Funding of the Arts" by Jacques Berlinerblau, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 22, 2012.

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

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  Photography, Use, Way

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• I have never voted in my life.

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• In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

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  Catholic, Obsession, My Own

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• I like the aesthetics of the Church.

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  Church, Aesthetics

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• One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

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  Life, Artist, Inspire

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