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

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

My great grandmother was Chinese .

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.

There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.

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.

If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.