I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures, because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong. If I was born in Japan, I would speak about Buddhism, but I was born in South America.