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

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

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.

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

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

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

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