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

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.

Love when you can, and fight when you must, but stand together and never give up, not to the enemy, and not on each other.

Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth

Pain is not to be buried away, in my mother’s book: you stomp and rave until it hurts a little less." -Buzzfeed Article

Making money ethically is to be paid whilst solving someone else's problems.

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that's its beauty.

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

What is the purpose of any one workout? Enjoyment? Improvement? Coach said so? Whatever, the hour you run often is the best hour of the day.

The passion to win games, the incredible, focused energy and also the camaraderie of the team were all things that I really loved.

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?