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.
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.
I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they’ll collect my work.
In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
Artists are a free society’s greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization’s triumphs.
Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.
My work is intensely personal.
My use of the medium – photography – is in some ways traditional.
I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.
I like the aesthetics of the Church.
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions...
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 drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.
I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.
I don’t think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.
I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.
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.