I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.

In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it, or to show that photography lies - that what it conveys is not reality but a set of cultural codes.

Every time I ask questions about sex, I always end up asking questions about death.

I've filled my whole life trying to preserve the memory of living, in the fight against dying. Perhaps the only thing I've done, since stopping death is impossible, is to show this fight. The fight itself does not satisfy us either.

You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.