If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.

'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.

There's no such thing as a sane woman.

Be grown enough to do whatever you want to, but wise enough to always do the right thing.

Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.

He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.

Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

I don't have a favourite designer because I feel every designer offers something different and special, but I do really like Alexander Wang, Burberry, Stella McCartney and Balmain.

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.