When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

'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.

You are not a real thinker if your thoughts haven't landed you in trouble yet

If you want to keep people happy, just keep the food and entertainment rolling.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

I don't believe in synergy. I believe that things have to be specific to the medium that they're in.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, everybody knows this!

I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.

We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.

It’s all about getting them back in, and I think…my husband and I talk about it all the time…it’s about making it personal for the guest.