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

I like food because you can change it. I mean, there is no such thing as a perfect lamb chop; you can make all types of lamb chops. And that's true of everything. And people eat it and it changes and disappears.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

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

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

I got a job as a dishwasher in Oakland, and I would draw all day. It was nice because the lady who ran the boardinghouse where I worked let me live there for nothing if I gave her some drawings every week - mostly park drawings of birds and such.

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