My great grandmother was Chinese .

You can't force yourself to be something you are not.

The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work that is as transparent and simple as possible. No matter how much I strip away the result is always more complex to me than I expect.

I do think I paid a price as an artist, and I am trying to make up for it now - I work six days a week in the studio, and I've never been happier.

My great grandmother was Chinese .

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

My idea for every exhibition is we should be able to see every individual work without being distracted by the others, and it doesn't matter if it's quite crowded.