Because my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it will remain doubtful and inconsistent - which is the way it should be. All that I care about is that, like any startling piece of nature, it should be capable of stimulating meaning.

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

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

Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.

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.