If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.

In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.

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.

Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.

If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.

The viewer brings all additional information to the image.

In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.