Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works.

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

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.

It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.

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

In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.

For example, in England, we teach about Expressionism, but it is not the same in England as it is in Germany, because Expressionism is more important in the history of German art. So although it is the same history, the emphasis is different.