I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can't.

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

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

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 had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.

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

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