Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

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

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

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, 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.