For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two; eat one and drop the other.

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.

I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.

I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.

You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.

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

I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I went on a tour of my own. I didn't go to New York because that was too well known for its art scene.