All the basic information should be in the object itself.

I had been doing wall drawings, but they were always black and white. Then in 1993 I painted all the walls of a room to make an installation and as soon as I saw the colour on the walls, it changed my whole life.

In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.

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

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

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.