I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

What you see is what you see.

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

You see what you know!

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

The aim of art is to create space.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

Wouldn’t you rather play chess, Ma’am?....It’s less destructive of clothes.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

If you want leaders, you must become a leader yourself!

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

I enjoy eating and have no issues with eating. I am not going to be one of those girls who have to watch her weight.

I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.

The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.