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

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.

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

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

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.

I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in China, but these objects are universal, they go across all languages, all cultures.