"My visual world is typically sad and envious. And so my statements are not simply flat. My work is judgmental, and looks at death and destruction bitterly and with sorrow. 

It is not so easy to demolish a perfect, skillful, precise artwork yet I do it only to participate in the moment of destruction and to reach that infinity. Burying a knife in a beautiful painting and twisting it on behalf of death, it is as if I stab myself" - Aydin Aghdashloo