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.

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.

For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two; eat one and drop the other.

In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.

Actually, New York is great for playing around. I made a lot of studies for New York-a big vacuum cleaner lying on the Battery in Manhattan.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

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