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.

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

Because my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it will remain doubtful and inconsistent - which is the way it should be. All that I care about is that, like any startling piece of nature, it should be capable of stimulating meaning.

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.

You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.

I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.