I am just an artist.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

I am just an artist.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

People have to find ways of explaining the work.

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

I like Church furniture.

I don’t think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.

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.

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

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.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

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

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

I have never voted in my life.

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

My work is intensely personal.

My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.

Unfortunately, the Church’s position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.

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

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they’ll collect my work.

Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.