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Andres Serrano [1950-0] American
Rank: 104
Photographer


Andres Serrano is an American photographer and artist who has become famous through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work, notably his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine. 


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Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.
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An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
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Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.
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I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.
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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 think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.
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I like Church furniture.
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I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.
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In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
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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 drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.
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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 have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.
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My work is intensely personal.
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Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
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My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.
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I have never voted in my life.
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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 am an artist first and a photographer second.
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My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.
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I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.
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I like the aesthetics of the Church.
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I am just an artist.
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I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.
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People have to find ways of explaining the work.
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I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.
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Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.
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