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.

The viewer brings all additional information to the image.

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

You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.

It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.

The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work that is as transparent and simple as possible. No matter how much I strip away the result is always more complex to me than I expect.

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.