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

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.

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 would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.

I don't like the idea of nationalism, but on the other hand, I do see that there is a difference between British art, German art and Chinese art. This is because of the history, because each country has different history and each country reads and teaches that history differently.

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

I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.