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.

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

Buying art is not understanding art.

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.

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

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