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

When I was in Wuhan, I went to the art school, which was one of the most important art schools in China, an enormous art school. One of the things that I saw is that the schools are very big and there are so many students. It is very difficult to me to teach creative activity to great numbers of people, because I think you need personal contact with students, you need to speak individually, you need individual contact between teachers and students, you need continuity. To me this is a problem in mass education in every society now.

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

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

I greatly admired him as a teacher I didn't teach the same way as Josef Albers at all.

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

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.