The aim of art is to create space.

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.

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

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.

As you think about the future . . . give thanks and trust God . . . Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us—which we do not deserve.

Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

If y'all see me in the news, and I make the news for something that I ain't got no business making it for, don't bash me. Say it was a young guy living.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.