Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

A window looks outside, but a painting should do the opposite - it should look inside of us. When I put them in the middle of the room, I attach the paintings at the top to the ceiling and on the bottom to the floor. I prefer this to just hanging them from the ceiling because it creates a place in a space, like a wall.

At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.