A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

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.

You see what you know!

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.

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.

If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.

Eggs, " said Henry dreamily, looking at his plate. "I do love eggs. I could eat them all day.

The cloth cap on my headdoesn't tellwhat's in it.

God will forgive me that is His business.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

Things go wrong when the people who control that world stop listening to their own instincts and start catering to their fan base.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.