Art is more to do with observation than invention.

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

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

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.

You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!

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

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

Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.

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

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

If you close the door to the things you feel comfortable with, you will never discover the truth about yourself.

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.

Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.

Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.

Multi-culture is the real culture of the world - the pure race doesn’t exist.

I was always told to be a cook in the kitchen, a lady in the parlor and a wh--e in the bedroom.

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am / And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.