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

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

There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.

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 look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy, I did it exactly as I would when making a new work.

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

I don't like the idea of nationalism, but on the other hand, I do see that there is a difference between British art, German art and Chinese art. This is because of the history, because each country has different history and each country reads and teaches that history differently.