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

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.

Actually, New York is great for playing around. I made a lot of studies for New York-a big vacuum cleaner lying on the Battery in Manhattan.

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

The end of the '60s was a terrible time. I was in Los Angeles then, and I remember the night someone ran into the studio and told us about the Manson murders. Then suddenly something happened, the '60s disappeared. The '70s were completely different.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.