As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, y….

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the….

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art..

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will..

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history..

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art..

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning..

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing..

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth..

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work ….

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living..

Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God.

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history..

Buying art is not understanding art..

I am of the opinion that there are artists and non-artists. I think that this is the way it always was and always will be. I do not believe that we a….

I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for hea….

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my h….

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment..

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not..

As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and ….

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first commun….