The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work that is as transparent and simple as possible. No matter how much I strip away the result is always more complex to me than I expect.

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.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

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.

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

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

I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as a period of exceptional creative freedom and adventure, when one was regularly presented with works of art unlike anything one had ever seen before.