When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.

'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.

Life is nether a play nor a party. But the love of prayer.

I won't kill you but I don't have to save you.

Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.

If you don't have voter ID, you can just keep voting and voting and voting.

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

Life--a lifelong death sentence.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here.

With any character, you want the audience to at least empathize.