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

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

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

My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.

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.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

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.