Art is more to do with observation than invention.

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

The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work that is as transparent and simple as possible. No matter how much I strip away the result is always more complex to me than I expect.

The viewer brings all additional information to the image.

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.

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