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

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not 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.

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.