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.

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

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 am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.

The thing about the ray gun is, you pick up anything you see on the street that's the shape of a gun.