We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, cod…

- John Yau

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.

- John Yau

You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eye…

- John Yau

What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman…

- John Yau