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.

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious. I would say that there are many individuals in the Church who appreciate it and who do not have a problem with it. The best place for Piss Christ is in a church.

My work is intensely personal.

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

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.