I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

Art is manipulation without intervention.