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.

If you close the door to the things you feel comfortable with, you will never discover the truth about yourself.

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

There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part of Western tradition. There is a historical development, in which things find resonance in different places.

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.

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

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