Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

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."

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.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.