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

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

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.

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

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is very difficult to hang because it is so large and the quality is very varied. There are 1,200 works, an almost impossible number, some are interesting and some are not.

I greatly admired him as a teacher I didn't teach the same way as Josef Albers at all.