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

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.

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.

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

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

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.