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 just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."

Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.

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.

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

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.