'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 things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

The viewer brings all additional information to the image.

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 think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.

If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.