The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.

'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.

He would be able to suffer what his son had suffered. He would be able to suffer and his suffering would for an instance displace his grief.

You have to get lost to find your true self.

Coffee is not my thing, and RedBull is my wing.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

Well, I think it's era that in which people had a lot of fun. In fact too much fun and would not concern themselves with the negative effects of the accesses that they were involved in.

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

The meaning is in the waiting.

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.