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

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.

In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.

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

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.

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