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.

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.

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.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

The thing I fear most is fear.

First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think.

The universe is amply supplied with night.

Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people. But they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time.

With this ranking system, the more you play, the better off you are.

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.