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

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

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 am of the opinion that there are artists and non-artists. I think that this is the way it always was and always will be. I do not believe that we are in the center of the world. It is possible that there are gods who do not relate to human. As an artist, I believe that it is possible to depict these forces.

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

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

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