When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.

I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy, I did it exactly as I would when making a new work.

In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.

Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works.

I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.

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