I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

For me, it would be very difficult to express an opinion about our times without humor. I don't think you could do that.

Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest.

I'm spending a lot of time in the Palazzo and in the museums. I'm printing [pictures that I take] and making a binder with a mix of internet research and palazzo research that I'm planning to use for the upcoming works.

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

One of my assistants was on Instagram and showed me how it was working. I thought it was playful, the way you go through images, a little like cinema. It's a bit like a filmstrip that's animated by your finger.

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.