'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.

When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.

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

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

All the basic information should be in the object itself.