Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.

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

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

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.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.