Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Andres Serrano

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American photographer Andres Serrano.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Andres Serrano is an American photographer and artist. His work, often considered transgressive art, includes photos of corpses and uses feces and bodily fluids. His Piss Christ (1987) is a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine. He also created the artwork for the heavy metal band Metallica's Load and Reload albums.

American - Photographer | Born: August 15, 1950

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In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

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

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People have to find ways of explaining the work.

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Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

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

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

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I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

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

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I like the aesthetics of the Church.

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I have never voted in my life.

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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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Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.

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My work is intensely personal.

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

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Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

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I am just an artist.

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

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

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

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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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I am an artist first and a photographer second.

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I like Church furniture.

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

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

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

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An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

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