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

'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 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.

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

If you have food on your table, clothes on your back, a roof on your head, and a dream in your heart, you have everything you need in life.

From loss breeds new opportunity

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Wisdom is infused into every form.

I've always gotten myself overly involved in supporting other women who've not always been as supportive in return.