I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.

When I was teaching I often said to students that you are trying to be too creative, don't be too creative, because there is so much already in what you are making, you don't need to do very much. You just need to do a little bit, and that is a lot.

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

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

Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.

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.

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.