A biography for Andres Serranohasn’t been written yet.
“My work is intensely personal.”
“People have to find ways of explaining the work.”
“I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.”
“I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.”
“My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.”
“One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.”
“In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.”
“An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.”
“I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.”
“I like the aesthetics of the Church.”
“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.”
“Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.”
“Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.”
“Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.”
“I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.”
“I am an artist first and a photographer second.”
“I am just an artist.”
“I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.”
“I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.”
“I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.”