I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.

'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.

The difference between vampires and angels? Angels are real.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

I'm not sure I can articulate any principles behind the decisions about what to cut and what to keep.

Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

No man is a hero in his own country.

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.