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

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.

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

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

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.

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.