When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.

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.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

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.

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

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.