Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

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.

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.

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.

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

Number one, one, one on wonderful WINO.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.