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

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.

You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.

I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work that is as transparent and simple as possible. No matter how much I strip away the result is always more complex to me than I expect.