There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

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

The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.

I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.

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.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.