I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.

It is very important to develop the thing that you are naturally good at, that you are truly interested in.

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

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.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.