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.

I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't distort the objects, I don't change the objects, I draw them exactly as they are. I do the opposite with the colours.

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

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

I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.

[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.