I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.

I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.

I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.