I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.

I met a photographer who agreed to give me a few lessons; in exchange, I had to pose naked for him.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it, I spent three months going through the photographs and I spent one day deciding it would be this size and this frame...it's the last thought in the process.

I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.