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

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 never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

Buying art is not understanding art.

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

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.

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.