Andres Serrano Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Andres Serrano:

I have never voted in my life.
~Andres Serrano


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#7ffc2772

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#52a3520f

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#74d6fbbd

I like the aesthetics of the Church.
~Andres Serrano


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#9b7d9b3a

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.
~Andres Serrano


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#ff9d25c3

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#d733ab1d

I like Church furniture.
~Andres Serrano


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#01b5ec07

My work is intensely personal.
~Andres Serrano


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#45ddf121

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#7a84b0d2

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#842ca3bd

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#fc7240fc

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#e8c18c6e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#95196465

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#2616174e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#57572664

I am just an artist.
~Andres Serrano


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#7da2cc49

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#4eca268a

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#30fde592

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.
~Andres Serrano


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#c88f3cdd

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#4c0a5e7b

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#6e05f571

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#fefd45aa

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#50f0f98f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#0618858e

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#6179a9bb

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#2d8df91b

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/andres-serrano-quotes/#4e826374

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