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

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

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.

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.

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

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.

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

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

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

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

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

Buying art is not understanding art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.

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