Andres Serrano

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.

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

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

I am just an artist.

Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.

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.

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

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

I have never voted in my life.

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

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

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