"Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa."

"My work is intensely personal."

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

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

"Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures."

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

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

"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."

"I like the aesthetics of the Church."

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

"I like Church furniture."

"People have to find ways of explaining the work."

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

"I am just an artist."

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

"I am an artist first and a photographer second."

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

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

"I have never voted in my life."

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

"In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions."

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