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

'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.

sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.

People do not become world's richest men by praying but by time conversion into products.

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

The golden gate to peace in life is the experience of bliss, and it is easy for everyone to acquire this great glory and live it throughout life.

People become what they expect themselves to become

If you don't stand for something, you stand for nothing.

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.