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

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..

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

Art is difficult. Its not entertainment..

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 ….

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

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist….

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us..