Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.

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.

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

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

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.

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.