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

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.

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

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.

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.

I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.