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

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

It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.

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!

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

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 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.