Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.

If you like music you like silence actually.

I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.