If you close the door to the things you feel comfortable with, you will never discover the truth about yourself.

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

At the Summer Exhibition, I didn't really change anything; it's the same exhibition. All I changed is the presentation. I didn't really change the rules.

I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.

I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in China, but these objects are universal, they go across all languages, all cultures.

I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can't.

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