In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.

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

It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.

I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.

For example, in England, we teach about Expressionism, but it is not the same in England as it is in Germany, because Expressionism is more important in the history of German art. So although it is the same history, the emphasis is different.

Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.

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