Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.

The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.

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

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.

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

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

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