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.

In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.

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

When I was in Wuhan, I went to the art school, which was one of the most important art schools in China, an enormous art school. One of the things that I saw is that the schools are very big and there are so many students. It is very difficult to me to teach creative activity to great numbers of people, because I think you need personal contact with students, you need to speak individually, you need individual contact between teachers and students, you need continuity. To me this is a problem in mass education in every society now.

In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.

Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.

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.