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

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

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

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

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.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

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