When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.

You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.

My great grandmother was Chinese .

The first exhibition that I used bright colours in painting the room was at a gallery in Paris, and there were seven rooms in the gallery. It was very nice gallery, not very big rooms, around the courtyard, it was a very French space. So I painted each room in different colour. When people came to the exhibition, I saw they came with a smile. Everybody smiles - this is something I never saw in my work before.