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

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

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

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.

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

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.

Buying art is not understanding art.