I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

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

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

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

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

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.