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

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God

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

The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.

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

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