I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

Art helped give me confidence.

A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.

People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.

I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.