By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as a portrait by Stieglitz.
As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.
I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my brothers. I am a dot myself.
Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.
Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.
People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.
There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.
We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
