Art is more to do with observation than invention.

If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.

Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.

There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.

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

In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.