All Quotes

I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use. ”

I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience. ”

On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus. ”

A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image. ”

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner. ”

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean there's closure. ”

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. ”

Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary. ”

If we were to have a presidential election in Europe it would be an event that would spark a huge interest in people from Lisbon to Helsinki, just like national elections. And it would create a completely different political setting in Europe. ”

Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics. ”