What you see is what you see.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

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.

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.

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning....

If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself.

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

The goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her.

The patient is the nucleus of the health care system.

There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.

Don't imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that's a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

The balanced energy of patience radiates a friendly and productive attitude from our hearts into every aspect of our existence.