I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.

This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.