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.

My idea for every exhibition is we should be able to see every individual work without being distracted by the others, and it doesn't matter if it's quite crowded.

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

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.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

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.

You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!