It is very important to develop the thing that you are naturally good at, that you are truly interested in.

'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.

Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.

You don't love someone because it's the logical thing to do.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

Heroes aren't always the ones who win. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.

To handle a hard situation, try a soft answer.

I take every day as it comes and if I have to be somewhere, I'll be there.

I despise this weakness in myself - this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action.

My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies.

I have more talent in my smallest fart than you have in your entire body.

Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.