I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

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

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

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

As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and say, how can I paint like them? You have to be obsessed by something that can't come out in any other way, then the other things - the skill and technique - will follow.

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

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.