When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

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

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.

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.

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.

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