I greatly admired him as a teacher I didn't teach the same way as Josef Albers at all.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.

I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.

Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.

'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.

You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.