The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through ….

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part..

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing..

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland..

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose..

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images..

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

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….

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

Buying art is not understanding art..

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….

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 ….

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 ….

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

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….

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

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..