Questionnaire

Q: What do you like the look of? A: Pears

Q: What do you wish you knew? A: All that I don’t, of course!

Q: What should stay the same? A: Change.

Q. What is art for? A. To tell us where we are.

Q: What are you reading? A: About what money can’t buy

Q. What could you imagine doing if you didn’t do what you do? A. Being a charismatic leader.

Q. What should change? A. Everything. Q. What should stay the same? A. Everything

Q. What do you wish you knew? A. There are so many things

Q. What should stay the same? A. Love.

Q. What should change? A. Everything: that's just how the world is

Q. What do you wish you knew? A. How to sing and play guitar better than Caetano Veloso.

Q. What do you wish you knew? A. How to drive an HGV; how to repair a roof.

Q: If you could live with only one piece of art, what would it be? A: ‘Probably my old Schimmel upright piano.’

Q. What do you like the look of? A. I like the look of you. You're looking pretty good.

Q. What should stay the same? A. I don’t understand the question.

Q. If you could live with only one piece of art what would it be? A. Las Meninas (1656), my first art-love. 

Q. What should change? A. My hairstyle.

Q. What should change? A. Religious obsessions.

Q: What should change? A: Poverty in the world. Injustice.

The General Director of Rijksmuseum on the art that inspires him and why he would have loved to have listened to jazz with Piet Mondrian