In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.

'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.

Gratitude is nutrition for a living relationship.

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?

Dare to ask questions. This is the only way to find answers to your curiosity.

Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several years; This is a occupancy for people greedy for life - human life is not enough.

I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.