The viewer brings all additional information to the image.

When I was teaching I often said to students that you are trying to be too creative, don't be too creative, because there is so much already in what you are making, you don't need to do very much. You just need to do a little bit, and that is a lot.

When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.