'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.

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

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

[Donald] Trump faces the perhaps accumulation of all the wealth in the world on the head of [Marco] Rubio, because Rubio's the last gasp of hawks and establishment Republicans.

There are some places that have had real quarrels with the United States' policies, but I think the country is very well-respected worldwide.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.

It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated.

You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and won with thanks.

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.