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.

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem and all of our life we try to speak about this problem. My trauma was historical. When I was three or four, all the friends of my parents were survivors of the Holocaust; they spoke a lot about that. My father was hiding during the war, it was something totally present when I was a boy. It is sure that it has made me.

We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you can speak about it in so many different ways. You can speak about landscape, you can speak about your food; it's always different. Trauma is the beginning of life as an artist.

The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

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.

There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.