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

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

Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people were killing each other.

The end of the '60s was a terrible time. I was in Los Angeles then, and I remember the night someone ran into the studio and told us about the Manson murders. Then suddenly something happened, the '60s disappeared. The '70s were completely different.

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

I like food because you can change it. I mean, there is no such thing as a perfect lamb chop; you can make all types of lamb chops. And that's true of everything. And people eat it and it changes and disappears.

The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.