When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

'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.

Any day stands equal to the rest.

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.

In music, silence is more important than sound.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.