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

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.

I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as a period of exceptional creative freedom and adventure, when one was regularly presented with works of art unlike anything one had ever seen before.

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.

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

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

The internet has extended the possibility of making art to more people, and particularly of enabling it to be seen by others. I am sure the internet is having a profound impact on art, particularly those who have grown up with it, but making good art will remain as difficult (and as easy) as it ever was. Having a lasting impact may become more not less difficult.