In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

'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 truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it.

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.