My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.

The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.

I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.

I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.

I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract, and antigeneral. The paradox is intensified by the use on a grand scale of small-scale subjects known from intimate situations--an approach which tends in turn to reduce the scale of the real landscape to imaginary dimensions.

I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.