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.

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!

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.

I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

America is dealing with the effects of an underreaction to Donald Trump when he was running and when he was Mr. Saying-Racist-Things-on-the-News.

When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?