As A Child I Had No Toys;

I Never See A Forest That Does Not Bear A Mark Or A Sign Of History.

I Was Interested In Transcendence From A Very Early Age. I Was Interested In What Was Over There, What Was Behind Life. So When I Had My First Communion I Was Very Disappointed. I Had Expected Something Amazing And Surprising And Spiritual. Instead All I Got Was A Bicycle. That Wasn't What I Was After At All.

Because Of My Calvinistic Upbringing, I Was Trained To Think That What You Do Has To Have A Purpose.

I Believe In Empty Spaces; They're The Most Wonderful Thing.

As An Artist You Have To Find Something That Deeply Interests You. It's Not Enough To Make Art That Is About Art, To Look At Matisse And Picasso And Say, How Can I Paint Like Them? You Have To Be Obsessed By Something That Can't Come Out In Any Other Way, Then The Other Things - The Skill And Technique - Will Follow.