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

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

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

Buying art is not understanding art.

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, you can do something with them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

My earnest desire for you has brought me to a point, where the life I've imagined we shall have, seems like a distant memory.

Rain makes the night -- and us -- smaller, softer, more forthright.

I want to get out there. I want to show myself.

I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. That’s what's really cute to me.

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

Guys like Larry Bird -- he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That's not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.

I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.

My love's more richer than my tongue.