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

You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.

I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in China, but these objects are universal, they go across all languages, all cultures.

I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

I don't like the idea of nationalism, but on the other hand, I do see that there is a difference between British art, German art and Chinese art. This is because of the history, because each country has different history and each country reads and teaches that history differently.