I got a little studio in Chicago and practiced. I realized I had to earn some money. So I went to work for an advertising agency where my job was mostly drawing insects for a company that sold an insecticide spray.

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

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

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.

I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but it sounds like fun.

I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.