The sexual is part of everything, and it's highly formalized. I hadn't done figure for a long time. And I thought to myself, "Why not the erotic figure?"

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.

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

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

I got a job as a dishwasher in Oakland, and I would draw all day. It was nice because the lady who ran the boardinghouse where I worked let me live there for nothing if I gave her some drawings every week - mostly park drawings of birds and such.

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

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