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

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

Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.

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.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

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.