Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

'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.

With their mother lying in a coma twenty miles away, they clung together drunkenly and wept for the loss of their father.

Wishes have voices sometimes.

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.

More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition.

I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.

The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.