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.

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.

Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.

Words, ' he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

Fiction is the evidence that reality exists

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

The life you are living is your creation, your perception of reality that you can change at any time.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.

My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.