So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.