I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

I’m a believer in luck and think the social conditions you’re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I’ve been lucky.

As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

A negative is never finished.

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.