The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.

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.

If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.

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

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 decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't distort the objects, I don't change the objects, I draw them exactly as they are. I do the opposite with the colours.

When I was teaching I often said to students that you are trying to be too creative, don't be too creative, because there is so much already in what you are making, you don't need to do very much. You just need to do a little bit, and that is a lot.