'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.

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.

There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part of Western tradition. There is a historical development, in which things find resonance in different places.

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

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

It is very important to develop the thing that you are naturally good at, that you are truly interested in.

I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.