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

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

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

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

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

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.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.