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

'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.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

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.

I am planting a tree in this bomb crater to remind us that in the midst of death, there is life... and hope.

Did I see them waving?' said Mrs Liberty'And particling, I shouldn't wonder' said the Alderman

High-quality food is better for your health.

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas.

I've tried to do everything possible to prepare myself and prepare our football team to be great.

The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.