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

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is very difficult to hang because it is so large and the quality is very varied. There are 1,200 works, an almost impossible number, some are interesting and some are not.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

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

The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.

All the basic information should be in the object itself.