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

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

Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.

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

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

Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.

If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.