Andres Serrano quotes
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“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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“I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.”
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“I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.”
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“I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.”
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“In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.”
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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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“Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.”
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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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“I have never voted in my life.”
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“I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.”
-- Andres SerranoSource : "Blasphemy and Public Funding of the Arts" by Jacques Berlinerblau, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 22, 2012.
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“I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.”
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“I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.”
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“I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.”
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“I am an artist first and a photographer second.”
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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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“Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.”
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“An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions...”
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“My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.”
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