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

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part of Western tradition. There is a historical development, in which things find resonance in different places.

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.

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

I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as a period of exceptional creative freedom and adventure, when one was regularly presented with works of art unlike anything one had ever seen before.

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.