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

The viewer brings all additional information to the image.

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.

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

If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.

I greatly admired him as a teacher I didn't teach the same way as Josef Albers at all.