As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

'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.

As long as there have been women, " Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.

...People are not one-dimensional. People do not live on one plane...

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

I love to relax. It's my favorite thing in the world. I am very good at being like a grandma and staying in and watching Game of Thrones or a movie. I think I could do that every night.

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.