The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows that someday there'll be recognition and monetary reward, but for the chess master there is little public recognition and absolutely no hope of supporting himself by his endeavors. If Bobby Fischer came to me for advice, I certainly would not discourage him - as if anyone could - but I would try to make it positively clear that he will never have any money from chess, live a monk-like existence and know more rejection than any artist ever has, struggling to be known and accepted.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

It's the viewer that makes the work.

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.