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

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

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

As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and say, how can I paint like them? You have to be obsessed by something that can't come out in any other way, then the other things - the skill and technique - will follow.

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

As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

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.