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

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works.

Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.

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

I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

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.