They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

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

I like food because you can change it. I mean, there is no such thing as a perfect lamb chop; you can make all types of lamb chops. And that's true of everything. And people eat it and it changes and disappears.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.