If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.

Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.

You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.