I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

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

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God