You see what you know!

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.

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.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only stupid people or fools would think it was bad.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.

But if your boyfriend, out of nowhere and with no advance warning whatsoever, dumps you for no apparent reason, is it really about you? Or is it all him?