If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

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

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.