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

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

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.

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

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

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

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.