My great grandmother was Chinese .

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

I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't distort the objects, I don't change the objects, I draw them exactly as they are. I do the opposite with the colours.

When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.

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.