'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.

I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.

You can't force yourself to be something you are not.

The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.

[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.

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