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.

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.

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

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.

I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.

Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people were killing each other.

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