It was easy to get a job at the Cedar Bar because people came and went, but I didn't like the atmosphere. Instead, I got a job at Cooper Union Library. I stayed at Cooper Union for seven years; it was my salvation. While I worked there, I also read books of every kind.

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

I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

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

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

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.

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.