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.

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.

I do think I paid a price as an artist, and I am trying to make up for it now - I work six days a week in the studio, and I've never been happier.

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

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

Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.