I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

'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.

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.

If you close the door to the things you feel comfortable with, you will never discover the truth about yourself.

Deep down inside what i want is a little of me.

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.

Working on women and working on different ages and different shapes of bodies… I love women. I love to spend more time with them.

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.

Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

Die while I can still remember who I am, who I used to be.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.