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

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.

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

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.

Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.

It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.

Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy.

It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.