Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.

'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.

All I ever think about day and night is-how can I make a difference in the lives of others, how can I provide an ounce of contentment and happiness?

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

When I read "The Whole Nine Yards" I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'.

You don't have to stop everything to get organized, you just have to start.

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

As a kid I was made to walk the plank. We couldn't afford a dog.

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.

You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy

Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.

I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe.