I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.