Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.

I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

The thing about the ray gun is, you pick up anything you see on the street that's the shape of a gun.

You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.