Andres Serrano famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#People #Able #Limits
I like the aesthetics of the Church.
-- Andres Serrano

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

#Spiritual #Church #Reason
I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.
-- Andres Serrano

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

#Smart #Thinking #Someday
In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
-- Andres Serrano

#Catholic #Obsession
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
-- Andres Serrano

#Artist #Civilization #Triumph
Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.
-- Andres Serrano

#Hate #Vices #Vice Versa
My work is intensely personal.
-- Andres Serrano

#Grooming
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

#Life #Artist #Hispanic
I have never voted in my life.
-- Andres Serrano
I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.
-- Andres Serrano

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

#Thinking #Should #Hispanic
I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.
-- Andres Serrano
I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.
-- Andres Serrano

#Real #Catholic #Church
I am an artist first and a photographer second.
-- Andres Serrano

#Artist #Firsts #Photographer
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

#Christian #Catholic #Church
Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
-- Andres Serrano

#Color #Political #Born
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions...
-- Andres Serrano

#Art #Artist #Obsession
My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.
-- Andres Serrano

#Photography #Use #Way

You may also like:

Alberto Korda
Photographer
Chris Ofili
Painter
Cindy Sherman
Photographer
Damien Hirst
Artist
David Wojnarowicz
Writer
Diane Arbus
Photographer
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Visual artist
Jeff Wall
Artist
Jenny Holzer
Artist
Jesse Helms
Former United States Senator
Joel-Peter Witkin
Photographer
John Currin
Painter
Marcel Duchamp
Painter
Matthew Barney
Artist
Maurizio Cattelan
Artist
Nan Goldin
Photographer
Robert Mapplethorpe
Photographer
Sally Mann
Photographer
Sherrie Levine
Photographer
Wendy Beckett
Presenter