Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.

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

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.

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

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

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.