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.

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

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

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

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

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.

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.