All the basic information should be in the object itself.

For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.

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.

There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part of Western tradition. There is a historical development, in which things find resonance in different places.

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

If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.