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

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

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.

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.

If you close the door to the things you feel comfortable with, you will never discover the truth about yourself.

I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.

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