You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.

'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.

All these boys were lethal. It really wasn't fair.

I just want $1 million next season, that's all I want

I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.

It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.

I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.

We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.

Change your mind about playing doctor?" "No, but I hear candy-striper uniforms are pretty cute.

The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.